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lateral oyos of tho front row, and those of the middlo and hinder 

 rows, are placed on largish black patches. The hinder slope of 

 the cephalo-thorax is very abrupt. 



The legs are pale yellowish-brown, indistinctly annulated and 

 marked with blackish-brown. They are not very unequal in 

 length, their relative length being 4.3.1.2., 3 and 1 differing but 

 little. In some examples tho femora, tibise, and metatarsi of 

 the first pair are blackish, and tho tarsi dull whitish-yellow. 



The palpi of the male are short, and similar in colour to the 

 legs. The radial joint has a small apophysis at its outer 

 extremity, and numerous long hairs on its inner side. The 

 digital joint is large, and tho palpal organs well developed and 

 prominent, but simple in structure. 



Tho abdomen projects considerably over the base of the 

 cephalo-thorax; it is of a dull brownish-yellow hue, thickly 

 streaked and marked with black or black-brown, and with a serios 

 of strong, angular, black bars along the middle of the hinder half ; 

 these are not nearly so much of an arrow-head form as those of 

 Euophrys frontalis, and the sharp anterior point of each is quite 

 distinctly separated from tho inside of that in front of it ; 

 whereas in Euophrys frontalis they run into each other. In the 

 present spider the intervals betweon tho black angular bars 

 form very distinct, but fine, yellowish-brown ones. 



Neon reticulatus is found in spring and summer, at Bloxworth, 

 among moss and dead leaves in woods, as well as among heather 

 on Bloxworth heath. It also occurs under stones and pieces of 

 rock in the Island of Portland ; and I have met with it in some 

 other parts, also, of Dorsetshire ; and it has been found in North 

 "Wales and Scotland. It is far less active than Euophrys frontalis, 

 indeed, I do not remember ever to have seen the male hunting 

 over plants and herbage in sunshine liko males of that species. 



GENUS EUOPHRYS, C. L. Koch. SALTICUS, Blackw., in 

 part. 



In this genus the cephalo-thorax is longer, and deeper (or 

 moro elevated) than that of either Ballus or Neon, tho thoracic 



