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Show 1876.] REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON EGYPTIAN SPIDERS. 625 Gen. SALTICUS, Sim. (Latr. ad part.). SALTICUS TODILLUS. Salticus todillus, Sim. Monogr. Att. d'Europe, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4e ser. 1868, torn. viii. p. 713, pl. iii. fig. 15; Cambr. Spid. Palest, and Syria, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 324, pl. xiv. fig. 19. Examples of this very distinct and pretty little Salticus were found under stones near Alexandria. SALTICUS REPUDIATUS, sp. n. Adult female, length 2 lines. This Spider is nearly allied to, but quite distinct from S. todillus, Sim. The cephalothorax is of a flattened oblong form, the fore extremity almost squarely truncated, and the hinder slope slight, and somewhat rounded in profile; it is of an orange-yellow brown colour, with two broad longitudinal dark brown bands running from the hinder extremity, through the posterior eyes, to the fore part of the ocular area, in the dark blackish-brown colouring of which they merge. The eyes are in the ordinarj* position ; the ocular area is longer than broad, and its fore part is very projecting; the eyes of the intermediate row are much nearer to the anterior than to the posterior row, and are placed within the straight line of the lateral eyes of those two rows. The legs are moderately long, their relative length being 4, 1, 3, 2 ; those of the three posterior pairs are slender, and, except the metatarsi of the second pair, furnished with hairs only ; the femora, genua, and tibiae of the first pair are very much stronger than those of any of the rest, of a yellow-brown colour, the tibial joints much darker, and, with the metatarsi, armed beneath with two longitudinal parallel rows of four strong spines in each row ; the legs of the second pair are yellow, the tibiae marked on each side forwards with brown ; those of the third and fourth pairs are yellow; all the tarsi have a small dark scopula beneath the terminal claws. The palpi are moderately long, slender, and of a yellow colour. The falces are small, vertical, yellow-brown, and placed far back beneath the fore part of the cephalothorax. The maxilla and labium are yellow-brown, the sternum yellow, and of a narrow oval form. The abdomen is of an elongate oval form, constricted towards the fore part, and joined to the cephalothorax by a short but distinct pedicle; its colour is yellow-brown, paler in the region of the constriction and on the sides of the fore extremity; a small obloiig patch at the fore extremity, as well as most of the hinder half, are shining and of a somewhat corneous appearance, the hinder extremity also deepening considerably in colour; the underside is much paler, with two faiiit longitudinal, parallel, dusky-brown bands. A single example of the adult female was found under a stone near Alexandria. |