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pair the longest, then the first, third pair the shortest ; they are 

 of a dark yellowish brown colour, the metatarsi and tarsi being 

 the darkest, and the coxae are dark brown on the under side. The 

 palpi resemble the legs in colour. Abdomen thickly covered with 

 hairs, oviform, rather larger at the posterior than at the anterior 

 extremity, convex above, projecting over the base of the cephalo- 

 thorax ; the upper part is brown with a yellowish tinge, a brown 

 rhomboidal band extending from the anterior extremity along the 

 middle, about half-way towards the spinners ; on each side of the 

 broadest part of this band is a small indentation surrounded by 

 yellowish brown hairs ; sides and under part yellowish brown, 

 spotted with brown, the spots being much the most numerous on 

 the former. Orifice of the sexual organs bisected by a longitu- 

 dinal septum, which, with the margins, is reddish brown. Plates 

 of the spiracles brown. 



The male is smaller and slenderer than the female, and its 

 legs, palpi, mandibles, maxillse and lip are paler. The radial 

 joint of the palpi is rather longer than the cubital ; the digital 

 joint is of an oblong-oval figure, convex and hairy externally, 

 concave within, at the base, which concavity comprises the palpal 

 organs; they are neither highly developed nor very complicated 

 in structure, the upper part being prominent and projecting a 

 process which curves along the inner side and terminates in a 

 point j their colour is reddish brown with yellowish brown inter- 

 mixed. The compact extremity of the digital joint is densely 

 covered with long, fine hairs on the under side. 



I have much pleasure in dedicating this fine species to Charles 

 Cardale Babington, Esq., M.A., St. John^s College, Cambridge, 

 to whom I am indebted for an extensive and highly interesting 

 collection of British spiders. 



2. Jjycosa propinqua. 



Length of the female ^ an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax 

 ^ ; breadth /^ ; breadth of the abdomen ^ ; length of a posterior 

 leg I ; length of a leg of the third pair -f-^. 



Mandibles powerful, conical, vertical, and armed with teeth on 

 the inner surface : maxillse straight, gradually enlarged to the 

 extremity, which is obliquely truncated and fringed with long 

 hairs on the inner surface : lip nearly quadrate, being rather 

 broader at the base than at the apex : sternum heart-shaped : 

 these parts are dark brown, the extremities of the maxillse and 

 lip being tinged with red. Cephalo-thorax hairy, compressed 

 before, depressed on the sides and at the posterior part, with fur- 

 rows diverging from the middle towards the lateral margins, and 

 a narrow indentation in the medial line of the posterior region ; 

 it is of a dark brown colour, with a broad grayish band extend- 



