566 

 HASARIUS ADANSONII. 



Hasamus adansonti, Savigny, Sim., Arachn. de France, p. 79. 



Salticus citus, Cambr., Zoologist 1869, p. 8461. Ann. and 

 Mag., N. H. 1878, ser. 5, vol. 1, p. 127. 



Length of the male l-4th of an inch. 



Oephalo-thorax deep reddish-brown ; ocular area black, 

 surrounded by a curved band of white hairs, on a paler red- 

 brown ground, the convexity of the curve directed backwards. 



Legs rather long, 4.1.3.2. not so strong as those of Sasarius 

 arcuatus, Clk. ; of a deep reddish black-brown colour ; tarsi paler. 



Palpi rather long, slender, of a dark reddish-brown hue, with 

 a strong fringe of long white hairs at the fore extremity of the 

 humeral joint, and along the front (on the inner side) of the 

 cubital and radial joints ; the radial has a very small apophysis 

 at its fore extremity. The digital joint is very small and narrow, 

 scarcely broader than the radial joint ; the palpal organs are 

 simple. 



Abdomen short-oval ; black or black-brown above, with a 

 broad, central, longitudinal, reddish or brownish-red band. A 

 crescent of white hairs surrounds the fore extremity, and on the 

 hinder half is a large quadrangle formed by spots of white hairs, of 

 which the two anterior ones are the largest and widest apart. 

 Sides dark yellowish-brown, so thickly striated and spotted with 

 black, as to look almost black in some examples ; under side 

 dark yellow-brown, or blackish brown, with four paler 

 obscure longitudinal stripes converging towards the spinners, 

 which are black, tipped with yellowish-white. 



The female is larger, and of a duller, browner hue than the 

 male. 



Three males have been found in England. One in a Con- 

 servatory at Burnham, near Bridgwater, another in the 

 Herbarium at the British Museum, London, and the third in an 

 orchid-house in the Botanic Gardens at Kew. It is, perhaps, 

 only an accidentally imported species in this country, though 



