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The cephalo-thorax is black, sparingly clothed with short 

 greenish-yellow hairs, and behind each of the two posterior eyes 

 is a spot of white hairs. 



The legs are dark black-brown, the tarsi pale whitish -yellow ; 

 the metatarsi also of the first and second pairs are light coloured. 

 Their relative length is 1.4.2.3, and they are furnished with 

 hairs, with a few fine spines on the metatarsi of the third and 

 fourth pairs. 



The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, with white 

 squamose hairs on the upper side. The apophysis beneath the 

 humeral joint is long, strong, nearly vertical, and curved inwards 

 towards its extremity, which is bifid. The outer or hindor 

 limb of the bifid portion is rather the longest, nearly straight 

 and the inner one the stoutest and recurved. The radial joint 

 has a small, sharp, curved, spiny process on its outer side, and 

 is slightly produced on its under side. The digital joint is long 

 and narrow ; the palpal organs are simple, and project in an 

 irregular form backwards beneath the radial j oint, with a straight 

 prominent, pointed process directed backwards on the inner side 

 of their base. 



The abdomen is black, sparingly clothed with short, greenish 

 goldon-yellow hairs. The fore extremity of the upper side is 

 margined with a band of white squamose hairs ; and on either 

 side of the central line of the fore half is a broken, rather 

 ragged, longitudinal band of similar hairs, each followed by a 

 short one near the spinners ; and at the hinder extremity of the 

 under side, near the spinners, are two similar white spots in a 

 transverse line. 



A single examplo of this very distinct species, found some 

 years ago at Bloxworth, still remains unique as British. An 

 example is recorded from Paris by M. Simon. It may oasily be 

 distinguished from Heliophanus cupreus by its unstriped legs, and 

 the bifid termination of the apophysis on the humeral joint of 

 the palpus. 



