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others by tlie lengtli of the patella and tibia (genual 

 and tibial joints) of the fourth pair of legs, exceeding 

 in length that of the cepbalothorax and falees. 



This character has not been found to exist in 

 several females of the Montpellier species, minutely 

 measured by Mr. Moggridge ; in them the length of 

 the cepbalothorax and falees were found to exceed 

 that of the genual and tibial joints of the fourth pair 

 of legs, by from IJ to 2 mm. 



• In reo-ard to the relative length of the lec^s of the 

 present species this was 4, 1, 2, 3 in the one example 

 examined, and 4, 1, 2-3 in the other, both being 

 males. 



It is a matter of regret that nothing, as yet, has 

 been accurately observed in regard to the particular 

 type or form of the nest of N. (labia. 



Habitat. Pyrenees and Spanish mountain regions. 



Nemesia Manberstjern^, Plate XX., fig. B, C, 

 p. 254. 



Syn. Nemesia Manderstjerna, Auss. $, Beitr. zur 

 Kenntn. der Arachn. Fam. der Territelaria, p. 54. 



Nemesia meridionalis, Cambr. (female). Harvesting 

 Ants and Trap-door Spiders, by J. T. Moggridge, 

 p. 101. Plates IX. X. XL 



Adult male, length GJ to 1\ lines. 



Since the publication of the description of N. 

 meridionalis, Cambr. (? I.e. supra), 1 have had an 

 opportunity of examining an adult example of each 

 sex of a Nemesia, described about the same time by 

 M. Eugene Simon as N meridioiialis, Costa, in Ara- 

 neides nouv. on pen connus du Midi de V Europe, p. 2 1 

 (separate copy). The species described by M. Simon 



