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about their young on their backs for a short 

 time after they are hatched. 



The genus Ocyale (p. 345), with which this 

 family begins, appears more properly to 

 belong to the family Podophthalmides, 

 Cambr. It is, however, an extreme repre- 

 sentative of that family, with close affinities 

 to the Lycosides proper, and has hitherto 

 always been included with the latter. I 

 have not, therefore, here removed it from 

 them. 

 Oxyopides.— Eyes 8 ; in four transverse unequal rows of two 

 eyes each, forming a somewhat triangular 

 figure, the apex of which is in front, and 

 truncated, the base being convexly curvod. 



Spinners 6. 



Legs moderately long and strong, armed with 

 numerous and very long spines. Terminal 

 tarsal claws three. 



Cephalo-thorax remarkable for the massive 

 oaput, which has no marginal lateral con- 

 strictions, but runs evenly all round into the 

 thorax. Its fades viewed from in front is 

 large and of a subtriangular form. 



Aldomen large in front, going off gradually to 

 a point at the spinners. 



Spiders of a rather robust form, of modorate 

 size (in its only British representative), active 

 in their habits, both in running among coarse 

 herbage, and in leaping. They spin no snare. 



SALTIGKADiE. 



Spiders whoso usual progress is by a succession of leaps. 

 Although some spiders of the group Tubitelaricc and Citiqradce 

 leap freely, yet the present is a group well marked by its mode 

 of progression. 



