in 



of its leap ; but I have never seen it return (as somo obsorvors 

 have stated to me that it can) to tho point whence its loap begun, 

 in the event of missing its aim; indeed, I do not soe how it 

 possibly could do so, even allowing for the utmost olasticity in 

 the omitted lines. 



EPIBLEMUM SCENICUM. 



Auaneus soenicus, Clerch., Sv. Spindl., p. 117, pi. v., tab. 3. 

 Saltious scenicus, Blachwall, Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 47, 



pi. iii., fig. 24 (in part). 

 Calliethera histrionica, C. L. Koch., Die Arachn. Bd. xiii., 

 p. 42, tab. 439, figs. 1110, 1111, and 

 Camlridge, Zoologist, 1863, p. 8597. 

 The length of the male is rather less than 3 lines, and the 

 femalo is a little larger. 



The cephalo-thorax of tho male is of a deep, blackish-brown 

 colour on the thoracic region, and the caput black ; tho lateral 

 margins havo a broadish border of coarse white hairs, and 

 behind each of the two posterior eyes is an elongate, obliquo 

 spot of similar hairs ; numerous others also form a moro or 

 less regular band just bohind tho front row of eyes. 



The legs are yollow-brown, clouded and indistinctly anmilatcd 

 with deep blackish-brown, and clothed with hairs of variod 

 length, strength, and hue. 



The length of the long, divergent and projecting falces some- 

 times exceeds that of the cephalo-thorax. 



The palpi are long, of a yellow-brown hue, clothed with 

 (among others) white, scale-like hairs. The radial joint is 

 shorter than tho cubital, and has its fore extremity, on the outer 

 side, produced into a strong, curved, tolerably sharp-pointed 

 apophysis ; the point directed inwards. 



The abdomen is oval, of a black hue, more or less thinly 

 clothed with white hairs. A transverse, crescent-shaped band 

 at tho fore extremity of the upper part, and two oblique bands 



