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Sternum yellowish, with, black marginal border. Abdomen 

 oblong-oval, yellowish-brown, with a longitudinal band on each 

 side of the medial line, formed by large confluent black spots, 

 and converging to their hinder extremities. Sides marked with 

 slightly oblique rows of black spots and streaks. Under side 

 spotted with small black spots, the largest being in the medial 

 line. 



The male is somewhat smaller than the female, much darker, 

 and less distinctly marked. The palpi are very remarkable in 

 the size of the digital joint and in the structure of the palpal 

 organs. 



The female only of this fine species has been found in 

 Britain. An example of this sex taken by the late Eev. Hamlet 

 Clark on a post by the seashore at Southport, Lancashire, in 

 September, 1855 (and now in my possession), still remains 

 unique as British. I have received both sexes from France, 

 where, however, it is also a very rare spider. 



MAKPESSA NIGKOLIMBATA. 



Salticus nigrolimbatu.% Cambr. Trans. Linn. Soc, xxviii.,. p. 

 527, and Proc. Zool. Soc, 1869, p. 452. 

 Length of the female 1 -3rd of an inch; male rather smaller. 

 Cephalo-thorax black, more or less clothed with short greyish- 

 yellow or w hitish pubescence, and with a marginal band of white 

 hairs. Legs moderately long, 1.4.3.2., yellow-brown (those of 

 the first and second pairs darkest), marked and clouded in parts 

 with dark brown. 



Palpi (of tho male) short, particularly the cubital and radial 

 joints ; the humeral, radial, and cubital joints are furnished with 

 white hairs, those on the inner side of the radial longest, and 

 forming a sort of tuft ; this last joint is produced on tho inner 

 side, and has an oblique direction. Digital joint largo, of a 

 somewhat oblong-oval form ; at the base, rather on the outer 

 side, is a small conical tooth-like prominence pointing backwards ; 



