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unth moderately slender peduncles, and fusiform heads 

 covered with fine hairs. Interlamellar hairs almost 

 spines, white. 



Legs short, fourth pair scarcely passing the hind 

 margin; of nearly even thickness throughout, except 

 the tarsi, but the genuals and tibiae have a tendency 

 to a moniliform appearance. Tactile hairs on the 

 first pair of legs very long and flexible. A short, 

 thick, curved hair on each side of each genual and 

 tibia of the first two pairs of legs ; a similar hair on 

 the outside of each of the femora of the same legs, and 

 a straighter hair, otherwise similar, on each of the 

 three central joints of the two hind pairs of legs. 

 Hairs on the tarsi shorter than usual, and there are a 

 few other hairs. Claws monodactyle. 



Abdomen slightly arched, truncated anteriorly, more 

 rounded posteriorly, almost parallel-sided. It is dis- 

 tinctly divided into three segments, of which the central 

 is far the narrowest (from front to back). The divi- 

 sions curve forward. There are two longitudinal rows 

 of thick white hairs on the notogaster, and a series 

 round the periphery, a little way within the edge, of 

 which that on the antero-lateral angle stands out con- 

 spicuously; there is also a hair on each side of the 

 first segment, near the posterior edge, and between 

 the peripheral and longitudinal rows, and a few round 

 the hind margin. Genital and anal plates large and 

 close together, the former much the wider, and as long 

 as the latter. 



Distribution. — I have found this species at Epping 

 Forest in dry sphagnum. Mr. Bostock found it at 

 Stone, Staffordshire, I believe, in a cellar. I do not 

 think that it is common, but it is very small and 

 easily overlooked. I am not aware of its having been 

 recorded hitherto. 



