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MENEMERUS PAYKULLII AuD. 

 Plate I, 63. Plate VI, figures 63, 63a. 



Syn.: 1825-27. Attus jmykullii And. in Sav. Descr. de F Egypte, 2. Edit., 



XXII, p. 172. 

 1837. '' " Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insectes Apteres, 



I, p. 426. 

 1837. " Zf go id., ibid., p. 426. 



1845. " binus Hentz, Journal Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. V. 



1846. Plexippus ligo C. K., Die Arachn., XHI, p. 107. 



1849. Salticus vaillantii Lucas, Expl. de 1' Algerie Zool. , I, p. 136. 

 1863, Attus africanus Vinson, Aran, des iles de 'la Eeunion, 



Maurice et Madagascar, p. 52. 

 1865. EuoPHRYS delibuta L. Koch, Verhandl. d. zool. bot. Ges. 



in Wien, p. 874. 



1875. Attus binus Hentz, Coll. Araclm. Writ, by N. M. Hentz, 



ed. by Burgess, Boston, p. 54. 



1876. Hasabivs jjaykullii Sim., Araclmides de France, HI, p. 81. 

 1881, MENEMERUS (?) " Tliorell. Studi Sui Ragni 'Mai. et Pap. , 



HI, p. 501. 

 1881. " " Keyserling, Koch and Keyserhng's, 



Die Araclan. Austral., p. 1461. 

 1885. " " Sim. , Faune Archnologique de r Asie 



Merid., Bull, de la Soc. Zool. de 



France, j). 7. 



We have Attus africanus Vinson from Madagascar and find it identi- 

 cal with ill", payhiillii. 



$ , Total length 9 mm. Width of abdomen 2.7 mm. 



Cej)halo thorax: length 4.5; width 3.1; height .2, 



Legs 11, 9.2, 9.5, 10.5; jDateUa and tibia of tlie first, 5; pateUa and tibia of 

 the third, 3.5; patella and tibia of the fourth, 4; metatarsus and 

 tarsus of the fourth, 4, 



Cephalothorax high, convex, a little dilated behind dorsal eyes, with sides 

 nearly vertical in front, and rounded behind; cephalic part inclined; 

 thoracic part falling gradually from a little way. behind dorsal eyes 

 nearly to posterior border, then abruptly. Ocular area occupying 

 two-fifths of cephalothorax, one-fourth wider than long, slightly 

 wider in front than behind. Anterior eyes all projecting, in a curved 

 row; middle eyes subtouching; lateral rather more than one-half as 

 large as middle eyes, separated from them ^by one-third their own 

 diameter; eyes of second row a little nearer lateral than dorsal eyes; 

 dorsal smaller than lateral eyes, equally distant from each other and 

 the lateral borders, forming a row narrower than the cephalothorax 



