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Legs 1.4.2.3., or 4.1.2.3., reddish yellow-brown, those of the 

 fiist pair strongest, brightest, and darkest coloured. 



Palpi short, strong, reddish yellow-brown ; cubital and radial 

 joints short, clothed with whitish hairs, the radial much the 

 shortest, and with a comparatively longish pointed apophysis at 

 its outer extremity ; digital joint moderate in size, clothed with 

 dark yellowish and brown hairs ; palpal organs simple in struc- 

 ture ; abdomen blackish yellow-brown, clothed with dull yellow- 

 ish and brown hairs ; on the hinder part of the upper side 

 is a series of slightly angular, or curved, pale reddish yellow- 

 brown lines ; under side dull yellow-brown. 



The female resembles the male in colour and markings. 



Both sexes were found on rushes in a marshy spot near Merton 

 Hall, Norfolk, and sent to me by Lord Walsingham. 



This little spider appears to me to be identical with Attus 

 caricis, "Westr., but not so with Attus atellanus, Simon, which 

 species this latter author considers to be identical with the 

 Attus caricis of Westring. 



ATTUS FLORICOLA. 



Euophrts florioola, C. L. Koch, die Arachn. xiv., p. 39, Taf. 473. 

 fig. 1301. 



Salticus floricola, C.L.Koch, Camlr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. 

 p. 528. 



Length of the male 2 lines ; female rather larger. 



Nearly allied to Attus saltator (p. 410, pi. v., fig. 7), which it also 

 resembles very closely in colours and pattern. It may be, how- 

 ever, easily distinguished by its much larger size, the blacker 

 hue of the dark parts of the upper side of the abdomen, and the 

 smaller size (as well as the more curvi-linear form) of the two 

 large white spots towards its hinder part. In A ttus saltator these 

 spots are round. The cephalo-thorax also, as well as the sides 

 of the abdomen, are much less densely clothed with white hairs. 



Examples of both sexes, both youngand adult, were foundamong 

 stunted herbage, and among the pebbles on the shore, even 



