562 



PHIL^IUS CHRYSOPS. 



Aranea ohrysops, Poda, Ins. Mus. Grsec, p. 123. 



Aranea sangtjinolenta, Linn., Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, I. ii., p. 1032. 



Saltious SANatriNOLENTUs, Walck., Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soe. xxviii. 



p. 433. Hahn u. Koch, Die Arachn. > 



p. 51., pi. 14, fig. 39. 



Dendryphantes xanthomelas, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn., p. 85, 

 tab. 446, fig. 1148. 



„ dorsatus, Id., I.e., p. 84, fig. 1147. 



„ leuoomelas, Id., I.e., p. 88, fig. 1150. 



„ nioriceps, Simon, Arachn. de France iii., p. 47. 



Length of the male 4 lines ; female somewhat larger. 



The cophalo-thorax of the male is black, clothed with long 

 black hairs, and with white hairs above the falces and behind 

 the two large central eyes; two small, short stripes of white 

 hairs running backwards from each of the two posterior eyes. 



Legs clothed with long hairs, and armed with spines beneath 

 the tibise and metatarsi, and also on the upper side of the meta- 

 tarsi of the third and fourth pairs ; femora deep blackish brown ; 

 the rest of the first and second pairs reddish brown, clouded with 

 deep blackish brown. The metatarsi of the third, and the tibiae 

 and metatarsi of the fourth pair are more distinctly annulated 

 ■with reddish yellow-brown and black-brown; all the tarsi 

 end with a strong claw tuft. Palpi black, or black- brown, 

 clothed with longish white and other hairs. At the outer 

 extremity of the radial joint is a moderately-sized, tapering, 

 pointed apophysis. Digital joint long, narrow, and of -a bent 

 form. Palpal organs simple; they extend considerably back- 

 wards and outwards in a strong, obtuse-pointed, somewhat 

 bent prominence, almost in contact with the radial apophysis, 

 and are encircled on the inner side by a long, slender, 

 prominently-curved, black spine, which reaches to the extremity 

 of the digital joint. 



