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longer legs and spinnerets, as well as by the altogether diffe- 

 rent form of the epigyne. The European species to which 

 A. longipes comes nearest is A. agelenoides (Walck.) *, a 

 South European spider showing a very similar abdominal 

 pattern to that of the present species. But the female of 

 A. agelenoides also lias much shorter legs and spinnerets than 

 A. longipes and a very differently shaped epigyne. 



In the last-named character A. opulenta, L. Koch f, from 

 Japan, shows considerable likeness to A. longipes, but this 

 species again has relatively short legs and apparently a 

 unicolorous yellowish-brown abdomen. 



On the whole A. longipes seems most nearly related to the 

 North American A. ncevia, Walck. \, which has the legs rela- 

 tively longer than in the European Agelence. But though 

 the general structure of the epigyne is similar, none of its 

 forms as figured by Emerton agrees with that of our spider, 

 and the American species has no lance-shaped marking on 

 the abdomen, while the terminal segments of its upper spin- 

 nerets are relatively short and cylindrical. 1 have to thank 

 the Rev. O. P. Cambridge for kindly sending me Canadian 

 specimens of A. ncevia for comparison. 



Family Argiopidae. 



Subfamily EriqoniNjE. 



Genus CNEPHALOCOTES, Simon §. 



Cnephalocotes silus (Camb.). (Figs. 6—15.) 



Eriyone sila, Camb. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 753, pi. lxv. fig. 7. 

 Cnephalocotes pusillus, Simon, Arachn. France, v. (1884) pp. 706-7 



(nee Microneta pvsilla, Menge, Preuss. Spin.). 

 Oiephalocotes situs, Chyzer and Kulczynski, Aran. Hungar. ii. (1894) 



pp. 118-9, pi. iv. fig. 41. 



Several specimens of this interesting addition to the British 

 spider- fauna have been taken on the coast sandhills at South- 

 port by Mr. Randell-Jackson during the early months of this 

 year. Full descriptions of the species are given by the 

 authors referred to in the above synonymy. A few structural 

 figures may assist British students of spiders to discover 

 fresh localities for it. Aspects of the male palp somewhat 



* Simon, Arachn. France, ii. pp. 115-6. 



t Verb., zool.-bot. Gesell. W'ien, xxvii. (1877) pp. 757-9. 



\ Emerton, Trans. Conn. Acad. viii. (1890) pp. 197-200, pi. viii. 

 figs. 1-1 n. A. califomica, Banks (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. (1896) 

 pp. 89-90), seems a nearly allied form. 



§ E. Simon, Arachn. de France, v. (1884) p. 699 ; Hist. Nat. Araign6es, 

 2 e <§d. (1892) tome i. p. 650. 



