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form, of a dull drab-yellowisli colour, with a central, 

 longitudinal, irregular, rather chocolate-brown bar on 

 its upper side, and G to 7 well-defined lateral oblique 

 slightly curved lines of the same colour and touching 

 the central line ; between these lines are some other 

 irregular, but similarly coloured, markings. 



The sides are almost immaculate, and the underside 

 quite so ; the spinners are ordinary. 



About 10 examples (all immature) were found at 

 Montpellier in branched tubes closed at the entrance 

 with a wafer-lid. The branch arises some way below 

 the entrance and runs up to the surface at an acute 

 angle with the main tube ; there is no lower door, 

 and thus this tube forms the type of a new form of 

 nest, being branched, with a wafer-lid, but without a 

 lower door. 



This species cannot be confused with TV! ccemerdaria, 

 which is found abundantly in the same locality ; 

 both the general form, colours, markings, and nest 

 readily distinguish it from that species. 



Habitat. Montpellier. 



Nemesia Simoni, sp. n., Plate XVT., fig. A, 

 p. 211. 



Adult female, length rather more than 9|- lines 

 (20 mm.). 



This spider is of a proportionally broader and 

 stouter form than others of the genus Nemesia, and 

 the cephalothorax (which is entirely glabrous and 

 destitute of adpressed hairs) has the caput more 

 rounded and elevated than in any other species of 

 Nemesia known to me, approaching Cteniza in these 

 respects. 



