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ventral surface has an amber colour, sparingly clothed with a few fine hairs. 
The vulva is formed by a semicircular narrow wrinkled hood, of a pale 
amber hue, between it and the spinners there is a double row of six shallow 
foveæ. 
Lake Tekapo, Canterbury, A. T.U. 
Fam. SALTICIDÆ. 
Genus Salticus, Latr. 
Salticus zanthofrontalis, sp. n. Pl. xi., fig. 12. 
Length of an adult male 5 mm. 
The cephalothoraz is somewhat quadrilateral, of a dull black hue, finely 
rugulose ; irregularly clothed with yellowish hairs, lateral margins convex, 
edged with fine hairs; the profile line ascends abruptly from the thoracic 
junction, then runs with a slight slope to the occiput which projects a little 
over the falees. The height of the clypeus equals the diameter of a fore- 
lateral eye. 
The ocular area is large, the hind-lateral eyes, which are the furthest 
apart, are placed near the verge of the posterior slope, and form with the 
faint fovea a transverse line; the small intermediate laterals are nearest 
to the anterior laterals; a rim of yellow lanceolate hairs curves over each 
of the fore-central eyes, and under the fore-laterals; the lower margins of 
the fore-centrals have white hairs of a similar form, and a few are scattered 
over the clypeus. ! 
Relative length of legs, 1, 4, 2, 8, the first pair is longest and most 
robust; the femoral joints have a dark mahogany hue, the genual and 
tibial joints, especially of the first pair, have a crimson tinge; the metatarsi 
and tarsi are brownish; black and white hairs; armature normal, spines 
strong ; the tarsi terminate with a pair of weak claws and scopula. 
The palpi are furnished with hairs only, and are similar in colour to the 
legs ; the humeral joint is rather long, the cubital and radial joints short, 
the latter is black, somewhat globose, and projects an apophysis near its 
articulation with the digital joint, which is long and narrow, convex, hairy 
and black above; beneath it is moderately convex, reddish-brown, with a 
large pad-like protuberance. 
The falces are vertical, broad, flat, finely rugulose, black; furnished with 
long white hairs, and strong teeth. 
The maaille are strong, broad, somewhat obliquely truncated, inclined 
towards the lip, which is nearly triangular ; these parts are dark brown with 
light apices. 
Sternum oval, black, few white hairs. 
The abdomen is oviform, and resembles the cephalothorax in colour and 
clothing ; ventral surface black, yellowish hairs. 
