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on each side are of a palo hue and densely clothed with white 

 squamose (or scale-lite) hairs. 



The female is usually paler coloured, and less distinctly 

 marked than the malo, and her falces are not developed like 

 those of that sex, being short and vertical. 



This is the spider usually alluded to in popular language by 

 the term of " jumping spider ; " it is abundant and generally 

 dispersed throughout Great Britain, being found on walls, in 

 the cracks and crevices of which it dwells. It comos out to 

 seok its prey in bright sunshine, in whoso rays its hairy clothing 

 often reflects metallic tints. 



EPIBLEMUM CINGULATUM. 



Aranea oingulata, Panzer, Faun. Ins. Germ., p. 40, 22. 

 Salticus scenicus, Blackw., Spid. Groat Brit, and Irel. (in part). 

 Calliethera scenica, C. L. Koch., Dio Arachn., p. 37, tab. 439, 



fig. 1106, 1107. 

 Salticus scenicus, C. L. Koch., Cambr., Zoologist 1863, p. 8597. 



This spidor, both in size, form, colours, and genoral appear- 

 ance very closely resomblos tho procoding, to which it is nearly 

 allied. It may, however, bo distinguished without difficulty, in 

 both sexes, by the abdominal pattern ; in the present spider tho 

 latoral white bands on tho abdomen are broader, and along the 

 middle of tho upper part is a more or less distinctly marked 

 serios of angular whito bars, which givo it a more striped appear- 

 ance than that of Ejnblcmum scenicum, Clerck. The malo is easily 

 distinguished by tho form of the apophysis at tho outer ex- 

 tremity of the radial joints of the palpi ; this, instead of boing 

 rather sharp-pointed and curved, is nearly straight, and obtuse 

 at its extremity. The two species wore evidently confused 

 together by Mr. Blackwall, among whose typical examples of 

 his iSalticus scenicus I have detected both of them. 



This spider is far less abundant than Epiblcmum scenicum, and 

 is usually (in my own experience almost invariably) found on old 

 posts and palings, whereas Epiblcmum scenicum is seldom found, 



