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nELIOPIIANUS FLAVIPES. 



Heliophanus flavipes, C. L. Koch., Dio Arachn, Bd. xiv., p. 64., 

 Tab. 477, figs. 1320 and 1321. 



Salticus flavipes, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc, xxvii., p. 403. 



The length, of the male is from rathor more than 1£ to a little 

 over 2 lines, and the female is a little larger than the male. 



This is a rather smaller and stouter built spider than Ueliophanus 

 expers, and may be distinguished at once by the absonce of white 

 spots or other markings on the abdomen, which is dull black, 

 clothed pretty thickly with dull greenish golden hairs. The 

 humeral apophysis of the male palpus is bifid at its extremity ; 

 the anterior limb of the bifid portion is the longest, the hinder 

 one rather divergent. The palpi are black-brown with whito 

 hairs in front. The cephalo-thorax is black, clothed with 

 greenish-yellow hairs. 



The legs of the male are yellow-brown ; the femora more or 

 less distinctly striped with longitudinal black stripes and mark- 

 ings, sometimes entirely suffused with black, and occasionally the 

 tibiae are similarly striped or suffused. 



The female resembles the male, excepting that the legs and 

 palpi are yellow and unicolorous. 



Although nearly allied to H. cupreus this spider may be readily 

 distinguished from that species by the unicolorous legs of the 

 female, and the bifid termination of the humeral apophysis of 

 the male palpus, as well as by its plainer and yellower appear- 

 ance. It is found occasionally among low plants and herbage in 

 woods, and on heaths and waste grounds at Bloxworth in the 

 months of June and July, but it cannot be said to be a common 

 spider. I have also met with it near Brighton, and Mr. Black- 

 wall has found it in Wales. It has likewise been sent to me 

 from several other parts of England. 



