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The legs are short and strong, their relative length being 

 4.3.1.2. They are brownish, or dull yellow, annulated dis- 

 tinctly (at least in the female) with black or doep brown. 



The palpi of the male are short, and of a dark reddish-brown 

 colour; the radial joint has two apophyses (or rather a duplex 

 one) at its outer extremity. The two portions of it are of equal 

 length, and runs parallel close together, but differ in strength 

 and form. The digital joint is of moderate size, and the palpal 

 organs are large, and prominent, but of simple structure. 



The abdomen of the female is black on the upper side, with 

 a central and two lateral, longitudinal bands, clothed thickly 

 with short white hairs. The under part is of a greyish-yellow 

 hue. 



The sexes resemble each other in their markings ; but in their 

 general appearance the two are very much unUke, owing to the 

 greater or less obscuration, in the male, of the pale stripes both 

 on the cophalo-thorax and abdomen, the latter is (in the male) 

 of a shining, satiny or greasy look ; the central, abdominal 

 stripe is more or less visible, but often only on the hinder 

 extremity ; the lateral ones are usually altogether obsolete. The 

 legs of the male are also of a very dark hue, destitute of any 

 traceable annulation. 



I met with this distinct and well marked species in tolerable 

 abundance at the beginning of June, 1875, on a narrow neck of 

 land or peninsula, thickly covered with dwarf flowers and her- 

 bage, near the railway station at Portland. It is an active 

 spider, and has as yet only been found in one other British 

 locality (a single example of the female, some years ago, in the 

 New Forest, Hampshire). 



GENUS iELUEOPS, Thar. SALTICUS, Blackw., in part, 

 and YLLENUS, Camhr., in part. NON iELUEOPS. Ibid. 



The spiders of this group may bo distinguished from Phlegra 

 by the greater elevation (especially in proportion to its length) 

 of the cephalo-thorax. The caput slopes very much forward 



