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men has a transverse band of white hairs across the middle. 

 The falces are medium brown, iridescent, with short, white 

 hairs on the upper surface. The legs are brown, the first, 

 third and fourth having the femoral joints much darker than 

 the others, while in the second leg the femur is lighter than 

 the other joints, and has a black, longitudinal line on the 

 anterior face. The palpi are darker than the legs. Sternum, 

 mouth parts and coxte of the third pair dark; other coxte 

 yellowish. 



Habitat. Algiers. From the collection of M. Simon. 



SALTICUS TRISTIS E. S. 1889. 



Arachn. de 1' Yemen, Ann. Ent. Soc. de France, Nov. 

 1889, p. 115. 



PI. III., Fig. 2, male , 2a and 2b, male palpus ; 2c and 2d, 

 var. rufula, male palpus. 



S . Total length, 7 mm. 



Cephaloth orax : Length, 3.3 mm; width, 1.8 mm. 

 Legs, 4132 ; 4th much the longest ; almost equally 



stout. 

 Falces, 2 mm. 

 ? . Total length, 6 mm. 



Cephalothorax : Length, 2.5 mm.; width 1.3 mm. 

 Legs, 4312. 



The cephalic part is high and rounded on the sides. 

 There is a constriction behind the dorsal eyes which cuts much 

 more deeply into the sides of the cephalothorax than into the 

 upper surface. The thoracic part is nearlj^ as high as the 

 cephalic and is curiously shaped, rounding off in all directions 

 from a central hump. It narrows but little behind. The 

 quadrangle of the eyes is about a third wider than long, is very 

 much wider behind than in front and occupies about one-third 

 of the cephalothorax. The first row of eyes is a little bent 

 downward, with the eyes close together, the middle being nearly 

 twice as large as the lateral. The second row is plainly nearer 

 the first than the third row. The dorsal is slightly larger than 

 the lateral eye. The pedicle is moderately long. The abdo- 



