THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. XIII. 



NOVEMBER, MDCCCXLI. 



Price 6d. 



Art. XLVIII. — Analytical Notice of the * Transactions of the Lin- 

 nean Society of London^ vol. y.\'in. pt. 4. August, 1841. 



Art. XLII. — The Difference in the Number of Eyes with which Spiders 

 are provided proposed as the Basis of their Distribution into Tribes ; 

 with Descriptions of newly discovered Species, and the Characters of a 

 new Family and three new Genera of Spiders. By John Blackball, 

 Esq., F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 181). 



21. Walckenaera punctata. Ceplialotliorax dark brown, glossy, 

 the sides strongly punctured : the legs are red, the first and fourth 

 pairs equal and longest, then the second and third : abdomen black, 

 glossy : its length is -j--^ of an inch : females found in May under stones 

 in a moist pasture near Llanrwst. (Linn, Trans, xviii. 629). 



22. Walckenaera tnrgida. Cephalol-horax dark brown, glossy : 

 the legs reddish brown, the first and fourth pairs equal and longest, 

 then the second and third : abdomen brown mottled with darker : its 

 length is -^ of an inch: found in September and October under stones 

 and blocks of wood, at Crumpsall Hall, near Manchester. (Id. 630). 



23. Walckenaera atra. Cephalothorax and abdomen black and 

 glossy : legs brown, first and fourth pairs equal and longest, then the 

 second and third : length ^ of an inch : found in May under stones 

 in moist pastures near Llanrwst. (Id. 631). 



24. Walckenaera hiemaUs. Cephalothorax glossy and nearly 

 black : legs red brown, the first and fourth pairs equal and longest, 

 then the second and third : abdomen glossy and black : its length is 

 -r^ of an inch : found in December and January running actively on 

 rails in meadows near Llanrwst. (Id. 632). 



25. Walckenaera hifrons. Cephalothorax dark brown : legs yel- 

 lowish red, first and fourth pairs equal and longest, then the second 

 and third : abdomen dark brown, glossy : its length is tt of an inch : 

 it was found in June, among coarse herbage in Gwydir woods, near 

 Bettws-y-Coed, Caenarvonshire. (Id. 634). 



26. Walckenaera hicolor. Cephalothorax and legs dark brown : 

 first and fourth pairs of legs equal and longest, then the second and 



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