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found in France, Spain, and North Africa, and widely distributed 

 also in various exotic regions. The male is a very striking-look- 

 ing, elegant, and active spider. 



HASAEIUS NOTATUS. 



Saltious notatus, Blachw., I.e., p. 58. 



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



Cephalo-thorax prominent in front, projecting beyond the base 

 of the falces, and sloping abruptly in the posterior region. Colour 

 brown-black, sparingly clothed with black and whitish hairs. 



Legs strong, 4.1.3.2., furnished with hairs and spines ; pale 

 yellow, with a black spot on the upper side of the coxse of the 

 posterior pair. 



Palpi similar in colour to the legs. 



Abdomen oviform, pointed at the hinder extremity ; brown- 

 black, thinly clothed with short whitish hairs, and with a pale, 

 yellowish-brown, central, longitudinal band, broader behind 

 than in front ; an obscure narrow band of whitish hairs 

 curving round the fore part, and prolonged on the sides nearly 

 to the spinners. 



Found by the late Mr. F. Walker, among herbage in a wood 

 at Southgate, in Juno, 1850. 



[I have never seen this spider, which may perhaps belong to 

 the genus Ha$ariu$.~\ 



GENUS SALTIOUS. Salticus, Sim., and Lair, (in part). 



The spiders belonging to this restricted genus are remarkable 

 for their elongated ant-like form ; the abdomen is elongate, and 

 joined to tho cephalo-thorax by a distinct pedicle ; the cephalo- 

 thorax is also elongate, and strongly constricted behind the caput 

 at the beginning of the thoracic part. The falces (of the 

 male) are very long, directed longitudinally forwards, and armed 

 with a fang of corresponding dimensions. 



One species only has been met with in Great Britain, and that 

 one is of great rarity. 



