ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNlDA. 57 



NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME OF THE SPECIES 

 IN THE FOREGOING LlST. 



Phaeoeedus parvus, sp. n. PI. A, Fig. i. 



Adult female, length 2.5 mm. (i lines). 



Cephalothorax much longer than broad, narrow and rounded 

 in front, truncated behind ; lateral impressions at caput slight ; 

 upper side convex, but rather flattened. Colour dull yellowish- 

 brown, and covered thinly with rather long dark hairs. 



Eyes in two transverse rows, the posterior row rather the 

 longest and nearly straight, convexity of curve directed back- 

 wards, the hind-central pair largest of the eight, near together, 

 but not contiguous, somewhat oval, or sub-triangular, oblique, 

 their small ends directed backwards, and very nearly the same 

 interval between these ends as between the larger ends and the 

 lateral eyes. The anterior row shortest, very slightly curved, 

 and apparently in the same direction as the posterior. The eyes 

 almost contiguous, the fore-centrals a little wider apart, smallest, 

 and separated from the hind-centrals by nearly a diameter, 

 height of clypeus rather less than the diameter of one of the 

 fore-central eyes ; all the eyes pearly-white, excepting the fore- 

 centrals. 



Legs short, strong, 4, i, 2, 3. No spines beneath those of the 

 first and second pairs, but all furnished with long coarse hairs, 

 two longish spines on the upper sides of the two first femora. 

 Colour like that of the cephalothorax ; the under sides, as also 

 the sternum, yellow. The maxilla andfalces yellow- brown. 



Abdomen elongate-oval, of a dull yellowish-hue, with a series 

 of indistinct curvilinear dark-brown angular lines on the hinder 

 half of the upper side, and clothed with long coarse hairs. Just 

 beneath the fore extremity of the upper side are a number of 

 long cylindrical curved hairs, upturned, and of a spinous 

 character. The genital aperture is characteristic. Spinners not 

 very long ; inferior pair longest and stoutest. A single example 



