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the relative length of its legs is different, the first pair being a little longer than the third. 
The whole of the first and second pairs of legs, and the thighs of the third and fourth pairs, 
are of a brownish-black colour. The cubital and radial joints of the palpi are short; the 
latter, which is the smaller, projects from its extremity, on the outer side, a long, pointed 
apophysis, curved abruptly at the end; the digital joint is large, oval, of a very dark-brown 
colour, convex and hairy externally, and concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which 
are highly developed, prominent, projecting upwards to the articulation of the cubital with 
the radial joint, not complex in structure, and have a dark-brown hue. 
Salticus distindus occurs in Denbighshire, Caernarvonshire, and the north of Lancashire, 
on stone walls, in the interstices of which the female fabricates a cell of compact, white silk, 
attached to the surface of the stone. In July she constructs in this cell a lenticular cocoon, 
measuring one sixth of an inch in diameter, and deposits in it about sixteen spherical eggs, of 
a pale-yellow colour, not agglutinated together. The young, even before they quit the cocoon, 
exhibit some of the marks most characteristic of the species. 
This spider is regarded by M. Walckenaer as identical with Attus erraticus (‘Hist. Nat. 
des Insect. Apt./ tom. iv., p. 409), from which it differs both in structure and colour. The 
maxillae of Salticus distindus are shorter, stronger, much more enlarged at the extremity, and 
straighter than those of Attus erraticus; its lip too, instead of being obtuse like that of the 
latter, is somewhat pointed, and its falces, sternum, and superior pair of spinners, have a much 
darker hue ; the figures also on the cephalo-thorax and abdomen of both species, designed by 
the disposition of their respective colours, are dissimilar. 
The Euophrys tigrina of M. Koch is the same as Salticus distindus; but the Salticus tigrinus 
and the Salticus litoralis of M. Hahn (‘Die Arachn.,’ Band i, p. 62, tab. 16, fig. 47 ; and p. 70, 
tab. 18, fig. 53) should be expunged from the synonyma of Euophrys tigrina , among which 
M. Koch has placed them, as they are distinct species, and have not yet been observed in 
Great Britain. 
Salticus floricola. PL III, fig. 30. 
Euophrys floricola, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 34. 
— Koch, Die Araclm., Band xiv, p. 39, tab. 473, fig. 1301. 
Length of the male, §th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, T gth, breadth,-th; 
breadth of the abdomen, -th; length of a posterior leg, ±th; length of a leg of the second 
pair, T Uh. 
The cephalo-thorax is large, somewhat quadrilateral, sloping abruptly at the base, 
depressed before, and projecting a little beyond the falces in front; it is of a brownish-black 
colour; the sides and front are clothed with white hairs, those below the lateral eyes having 
a browmish tinge; a short, longitudinal streak, composed of white hairs, occurs in the middle 
of the posterior region, and the large intermediate eyes of the anterior row are surrounded 
