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situated in front. The falces are small, vertical, and armed with a few teeth on the inner 
surface; these organs, with the maxillae and lip, have a dark-brown hue, their extremities 
being much the palest. The sternum is oval and of a dark-brown colour. The legs are 
short, and have a yellowish-brown tint, with black annuli, those at the extremities of the thighs 
and tibiae being the most conspicuous; the fourth pair is the longest, then the third, and the 
second pair is the shortest; each tarsus is terminated by two curved, pectinated claws. The 
palpi are short, strong, and have a pale, yellowish-brown hue. The abdomen is oviform, 
thickly covered with hairs, pointed at its posterior extremity, and projects over the base of 
the cephalo-thorax; it is of a very dark-brown colour above, with scattered, yellowish-brown 
hairs; at the anterior part there is a semicircular band, of a yellowish-white hue, and on the 
sides there are several oblique spots of the same colour; in the middle two angular, 
yellowish-white lines occur, whose vertices are directed forwards, the posterior one being much 
the larger; the under part has a yellowish-white colour, with a broad, longitudinal, dark- 
brown band in the middle ; and the hue of the branchial opercula is yellowish-brown. 
Specimens of Salticus gracilis have been taken among heath growing in ■woods on the 
Caernarvonshire and Denbighshire sides of the valley of the Conway. 
Though M. Hahn has described the female only of this species, yet the figure he has 
given is that of an immature male. 
Salticus cupreus. PI. HI, fig. 31. 
Salticus cupreus, Hahn, Die Arachn., Band ii, p. 42, tab. 55, fig. 128. 
— — Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 121. 
— Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. vii, 
p. 447. 
— teams, Hahn, Die Arachn., Band i, p. 65, tab. 17, fig. 49. 
— flavipes, Hahn, Die Arachn., Band i, p. 66, tab. 17, fig. 50. 
Attus cupreus, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 409. 
— atrovirens, Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 210. 
Heliophanus cupreus, Koch, Uehers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 30. 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band xiv, p. 56, tab. 476, figs. 1313—1315. 
— flavipes, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 30. 
— Koch, Die Arachn., Band xiv, p. 64, tab. 477, figs. 1320—1322. 
— dubius, Koch, Die Arachn., Band xiv, p. 61, tab. 476, figs. 1317, 1318. 
Length of the female, jth of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^th, breadth, T jth; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of a posterior leg, Jth; length of a leg of the second 
pair, jth. 
The cephalo-thorax is somewhat quadrilateral, and projects in front a little beyond the 
base of the falces; it is of a very dark-brown colour, tinged with copper-green; a transverse 
line immediately behind the eyes, two oblique ones in the posterior region, whose anterior 
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