TRAP-DOOR SPIDERS. 



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falces, whicli are of a uniform yellow-brown colour, is similar to 

 that of those species. 



Adult females were found in tubular silk-lined unbranched holes, 

 closed at the orifice with a flat scale-like hinged lid concealed by 

 mosses and lichens, and having a horse-shoe shajaed second valve or 

 door less than half way down the tube, of which it serves to shut off 

 the upper part. In this nest, as in that of N. meridionalis, the 

 upper part of the tube often projects above the surface of the soil. 



Nemesia Eleanora S Adiilt, natural size. 



Since the above description of the female of this species was 

 written, an example of the adult male has been most opportunely 

 discovered. It is much smaller than the female, its length being 

 only six lines. The Cephalothoi'ax is of an uniform clear yellow- 

 brown colour, tinged with orange, and thinly clothed with a gi-eyish 

 pubescence : the oblique indentations marking the union of the 

 cephalic and thoracic segments are indicated by a strongish black- 

 brown band on either side, which becomes obsolete as each ap- 

 proaches the other near the central curved indentation ; there are 

 also two or three converging suffused blackish stripes on the hinder 

 slope. The relative length of the Legs is the same in both sexes, 

 4, 1, 2, 3, but in the male those of the fourth are longer in 

 proportion to those of the third pair than in the female ; the spines 

 also on the legs are more numerous and stronger, the upper sides 

 of the femora of all the legs are deeply suffused with black, while 

 in the female this suffusion is not nearly of so marked a character, 

 though the genua of the different females examined had a strong 

 brown-black macula on the outer side of each, while the correspond- 

 ing maculae in the single male examined were but just visible ; the 

 three spines observed on the outer side of the genua of the third 



