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to the second, if not slightly longer ; they are well clothed with 

 grey and other hairs, and all are furnished with spines. 



The palpi of the male are moderate in length, strong, of a 

 yellowish-brown colour, thickly clothed with grey and other 

 hairs ; the radial joint has a remarkable apophysis of deep black- 

 brown colour springing from near the base on the outer side ; it 

 is of large size, broad, more than double the length of the joint, 

 and broadest near its extremity ; the radial joint is also thickly 

 furnished with long coarse grey hairs, especially on the inner side • 

 The digital joint is largo and of a black-brown colour ; the palpal 

 organs large and prominent, but not complex in structure. 



The abdomen does not project much over the base of the 

 cephalo-thorax ; it is thickly clothed on the upper part and sides 

 with brown, grey, white, yellowish, reddish, and black hairs, 

 forming numerous spots and markings, and giving it a very 

 prettily variegated look. Among the most conspicuous of the 

 paler markings, in well-marked examples, are two longitudinal 

 rows, each of four roundish white spots diverging as they run 

 backwards from the fore extremity to the hinder part. The 

 second spot from the hinder extremity on each side is larger, and 

 always more conspicuous than the rest ; and there is another 

 white spot immediately above the spinners. Along the middle 

 of the hinder half is a series of yellowish-grey, transverse, 

 angular lines, the intermediate spaces being black. The under 

 side is of a uniform greyish yellow-brown hue. 



The males and females differ but little in colours and markings, 

 though both sexes are very variable in general depth of colour- 

 ing, as well as in distinctness of pattern. A very dark, nearly 

 black, variety constitutes the Salticus sparsus, Blackw. 



This spider occurs, though very rarely, on walls at Bloxworth 

 and in the neighbourhood, and is adult in May and June. I met 

 with it once rather plentifully on tho walls of a house at Hursley, 

 in Hampshire, as woll as in the suburbs of Southampton, and 

 it has been also found in various other parts of England. The 

 males cannot possibly be mistaken for any other speoies if the 



