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Legs rather long, moderately strong; their relative length is 1, 2, 4, 3 ; 

 they are of a pale greyish-yellow colour, washed or roughly striped' 

 (longitudinally) with white, and spotted with black ; they are fur- 

 nished with hairs ; and the femora of the first pair, as also the tibijc 

 and metatarsi of the third and fourth pairs, have some fine longish 

 spines ; each tarsus ends with two black curved claws. 

 Thc/fl/ces are greyish yellow, speckled with black, they i)roject forwards, 

 and are moderately long and strong, but api)arently rather excavated 

 Avhere they meet the maxilla ; these are long, narrow, a little curved, 

 and inclined to the labium, which is of an oblong-oval form, round- 

 pointed at its ai)ex. 

 The *feraMm is heart-shaped, flattened, of a yellowish colour, mottled 



with white, and closely spotted with blackish spots. 

 The abdomen is (looked at from above) broader behind than before, and 

 of a somewhat pentagonal form ; its fore part projects greatly over the 

 base of the ccphalothorax ; and from its hinder part rises a large emi- 

 nence directed backwards and just over the end of the abdomen, and 

 furnished above with black spines ; the sides are strongly and longitu- 

 dinally rugulose ; and the whole has a wrinkled shrunken ai)pearance : 

 the colour of the abdomen is a mixture of dark and grey, white, 

 greenish yellow-brown, and reddish yellow ; a faint indication of a 

 broadish, longitudinal, central, dentated band of a paler hue may be 

 traced on the uppersidc ; and the underside is of a dull whitish liue, 

 with a broad, black-brown, longitudinal, central band. 

 Two examples (scarcely adult) were most Idudly given me by 

 H. T. Stainton, Esq., by whom they were captured, with some 

 other interesting species, at Cannes, in the early spring of 18G7 ; 

 and it is with great pleasure that I connect liis name with this 

 \cry distinct and, I beliovo, undcscribcd spider. 



Genus Tiianatus (Koch). 



Thanatus (Philodromus, Walck. ad partem) mundus, sp. n. PI. 

 XV. fig. 11. 



Adult female, length 2| lines. 



In form, colours, and general appearance, this spider is very like T. se- 

 tigerns (Cambr.) found in Palestine ; it is, however, larger, and differs 

 in the form of the characteristic central, longitudinal, lanceolate mark- 

 ing on the fore part of the upperside of the abdomen ; in the present 

 species this marking terminates posteriorly in a narrow acute point, 

 and is considerably and obtusely enlarged on each side at about its 

 middle part, while in T. setigerus it is cut off behind in a straight 

 transverse line, and the sides are merely very slightly angular. 



The eephalotliorax is clothed with hairs; and, looked at from above, is 

 nearly rouiul, the caput being produced at its fore i)nrt below ; so 



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