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gow, and have found it rathor abundantly on the downs noar 

 the sea between Brighton and Rottingdean. The distinctly 

 annulated legs will servo to distinguish it at once from Neon 

 reticulatus, Blackw. 



EUOPHRYS PETRENSIS. 



Euophrys peteensis, C. L. Koch., die Arachn., Bd. xiv., p. 49, 

 pi. cccclxxv., fig. 1307. 



Salticus coccooiliatus, Camor., Zool. 1863, p. 8562. 



The length of the male is l-10th of an inch, and the female 

 is a littlo larger. 



The upper part of the caput of the male is black, continued 

 backwards in a tapering form to the hinder margin of the 

 thorax ; and it is thinly clothed with blackish and golden- 

 coppery hairs. The sides and hinder part are reddish yellow- 

 brown, clothed with yellowish hairs, and with a broad (often 

 indistinctly defined), dark, brownish-black, marginal band. 

 The eyes of the anterior row are encircled by irides of bright 

 scarlet hairs, and the clypeus is also clothed with similar ones. 



The legs are strong and of moderate length ; those of the 

 first and second pairs are black, with yellowish-brown tarsi and 

 metatarsi ; the others have the femora black, and the tibitc, 

 tarsi, and metatarsi distinctly annulated with black and yollowish. 



The sternum is black or blackish-brown. 



The palpi are short and of a yellow-brown hue. The radial 

 joint is shorter and smaller than the cubital, and has, in front, a 

 compact fringe of long, shining, white hairs, covering the base 

 of the digital joint, which is large, and dark brown or blackish 

 in colour. The palpal organs are prominent, but not complex 

 in structure, with a strong black spine curvod in a circular form 

 at their extremity. 



The abdomen is of a short-oval form, and does not project 

 much over the base of the cephalo-thorax. It is black, 



