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Lip much longer than wide. Coxae i touching. Pedicle long. 

 Abdomen, cylindrical, with constriction at anterior third. 

 Sternum very narrow, contracted at both ends. 



Color. Cephalothorax, falces and abdomen light, clear, 

 reddish-yellow, frosted over with fine, silvery down ; only the 

 eye-region of the cephalothorax is bare, and is of a brighter 

 yellow, almost gold-color. Eyes on black spots. Legs and 

 palpi light 3'ellow, with tarsi of both the palpus and the 

 first legs darker. Under surface of body all light yellow. 



Habitat. Zanzibar. 



SALTICUS EPHIPPIATUS IIENTZ, 1845. 



PI. I., Fig. 2, female ; 2a, side of cephalothorax ; 2b, epi- 

 gynum. 



S . Total length, 5.2 mm. 



Cephalothorox : Length, 2.4 mm ; width, 1.4 mm. 



Legs, 4132, equally stout. 

 9 . Total length, 5 mm. 



Cephalothorax; Length, 2.2 mm ; width, 1.2mm. 



Legs, 4132, equally stout. 

 Cephalothorax rather high ; thoracic part on a lower plane 

 than cephalic, with a slight constriction in front of the middle. 

 Sides nearly parallel, contracting a little behind. Quadrangle 

 of eyes very slightly wider than long, a little wider behind 

 than in front, occupying two-fifths of the cephalothorax. Ante- 

 rior eyes in a straight row, all somewhat separated from each 

 other, the lateral about one-half as large as the middle. Sec- 

 ond row about half-way between first and third rows. Third 

 row not quite so wide as cephalothorax at that place. Falces 

 ( S ) wider than first row of eyes, more than three times as long 

 as face, nearly horizontal, diverging ; fang as long as falx ; ( ? ) 

 much weaker and shorter, slightly inclined forward, fang short. 

 Lip about as wide as long. Coxse i separated by more than the 

 width of the lip. Sternum long and narrow. Abdomen con- 

 stricted in front of middle. 



Color. Cephalothorax yellowish-brown ; abdomen en- 

 circled by a white band at the constriction, the anterior portion 



