458 BRITISH ORIBATTDiE. 



ceplialothorax and legs are reddisli-brown, the abdomen 

 dirty- white, and the latter has a few wrinkles near the 

 progaster. 



Distribution. — I have found this species most at 

 Epping Forest ; it is fairly generally distributed, but T 

 have not ever found it common. It has been recorded 

 in France and Italy. 



Hermannia reticulata, TJiorell. PL XLII, figs. 1 — 7. 



sfversigt af K. Sv 

 Vetenskaps-Akad. 

 hand., 1871, p. 696 



Hermannia reticulata,* Thorell. Oefversigt af K. Svenska 



Vetenskaps-Akad. For- 



Average length about '85 mm. 



Average breadth about '50 mm. 



Average length of legs (first pair) about *40 mm. 



Average length of legs (second pair) about '36 mm. 



Average length of legs (third pair) about '33 mm. 



Average length of legs (fourth pair) about "50 mm. 



I believe the English species to be that described by 

 Thorell, and above referred to, judging from his de- 

 scription, but that eminent arachnologist described it 

 from a single specimen sent from Bell's Sound, Spitz- 

 bergen, probably somewhat altered from what it would 

 have been in a living condition ; consequently I was 

 disappointed in the hope that Thorell might tell me 

 with certainty whether his species was mine or not. 



The English species may be easily distinguished 

 from all others of the genus by the reticulation of the 

 notogaster. 



Colour black or dark brown, lighter in specimens 

 lately emerged. 



Texture dull, between the reticulations it is extremely 

 finely granular, but rather a high amplification and 

 careful management is required to see this. 



Gephalothorax rather large, finely and regularly re- 



* Reticulatus. made like a net. 



