414 Mr. R. H. Meade on the British species of Phalangiid^. 



length of the body ; the second and third joints are longer than 

 the others, and nearly equal to each other in length. 



The legs are rather longer than in the preceding species, and 

 slender ; the apices of the two tibial joints are thickened. 



The colour is dull white or yellow ; the apices of the thoracic 

 scales are dark brown or black ; the dorsum of the abdomen is 

 brown ; the spaces between the posterior rings are pale. Two 

 rows of silvery, and sometimes golden spots, are arranged longi- 

 tudinally on each side of the dorsum, the spots being seated on 

 the rings ; they become more distinct towards the apex ; the 

 sides of the cephalothorax are also adorned during life with 

 silvery or golden reflections. The falces, palpi and legs are 

 brown ; the basal joints of the palpi and the extremities of the 

 femora and tibise are pale; the middle of the femoral joints is 

 annulated with several pale rings, giving them the appearance 

 of being divided into numerous articulations. 



The males have both joints of the falces armed with short, 

 thick, horny processes (fig. 8 e) ; but resemble the females in 

 shape and colour, with the exception of being about a third 

 smaller, and rather darker. 



This very elegant little species is not common ; but I have 

 found several specimens in the neighbourhood of Bradford, be- 

 neath stones, in the autumn, in woody places. Hermann, the 

 only author by whom it has been described (Koch only alluding 

 to his account of it), says that it is found in forests, among 

 moss. 



Genus 6. HomalenotuSj Koch. 

 , Body depressed and flat on the upper surface. Cephalothorax 

 narrow and pointed in front, without stigmata on the margins, 

 and distinctly separated from the abdomen. Eye-eminence 

 small and tuberculated, but without a regular crest. Abdominal 

 segments distinct on the under surface, but soldered into a 

 uniform plate or buckler on the dorsum, which is furnished 

 with several rows of large blunt tubercles. Legs short and 

 spiny, the second pair slender, the others thickened; the first 

 joints of the tarsi undivided. 



Homalenotus quadridentatus, Fabr. PI. XI. fig. 9. 



Ochraceus ; abdomine tuberculorum palhdorum serie quadru- 

 plici ornato (ordinibus duobus centralibus, super maculas 

 fuscas positis) ; apice quadridentato. Cephalothorace frontis 

 medio cornu porrecto. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Phalangium spinosum, Latr. Hist, des Fourm. p. 375. 



Phalangium quadridentatum, Latr. Gen. torn. i. p. 140 ; Walck. Ins. Apt. 



torn. iii. p. 120, 

 Homalenotus monocerosl Koch, Die Arach. B. xv. p. 188. pi. 534. f. 1493, 



