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ANGLIA HANCOCKII, A SPIDER NEW TO SCIENCE. 



By Frank P. Smith. 



{Read October 20tJi, 1905.) 



Plate 16. 



\Yhilst examining a collection of spiders from Yarmouth, made 

 in August, 1905, by Mr. P. Hancock, of Stechford, Birmingham, 

 I met with a form which appears to me to be new to science, 

 and I take this opportunity of describing and figuring its 

 characteristics. I have great pleasure in naming it in honour 

 of the discoverer. 



In the matter of systematic position, it has affinities both with 

 the Linyphiinae and the Erigoninae, but from the structure of 

 the palpus and palpal organs I have no hesitation in placing it 

 in the latter sub-family, of which it appears to be an early type. 

 The presence or absence of a second tibial spine, although of 

 much practical value in determining to which of these two 

 sub-families a species belongs, is by no means infallible, the 

 present species being a case in point, possessing as it does a 

 second tibial .spine upon two pairs of legs, but not upon the 

 remainder. Several such species are known, the palpi being, as 

 a rule, visibly erigonine. In fact, it is not at all improbable 

 that several species having a second spine upon all of the 

 tibiae will, eventually, be placed in the sub-family Erigoninae. 

 In my list of British Spiders of the Erigone Group * this species 

 should be inserted at the beginning, in front of Oedothorax. 



Genus Anglia, n. g. 



( 'tphalo-thorax oval, about one-third longer than wide, broad 

 and bluffly rounded in front ; cephalic portion very slightly 

 constricted, somewhat convex above, but devoid of any eminence 

 or post-ocular impressions. 



ClyppAis equal in height to central ocular area, slightly convex, 

 sloping outwards. 



* Journal of the Quehett Microscopical Club, Series 2, Vol. 9, No. 55. 



