68 ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNIDA. 



and a-half from the fore-laterals. The fore-central eyes form a 

 quadrangle longer than broad, and its fore-side much the shortest. 



Legs short, rather strong, 4, i, 2, 3 ; colour yellow-brown, 

 furnished with hairs only. 



Palpi short (excepting the digital joints, which are dark- 

 brown), similar to the legs in colour. Cubital and radial joints 

 about equal in length ; the radial is strong, broad, and of a 

 spreading or somewhat mushroom shape ; near the outer side 

 at its fore extremity is a small spine-like tapering, somewhat 

 sinuous, apophysis, its fore extremity drawn out into a fine 

 hair-like point. The digital joint is large and sub-conically 

 prominent on the inner side. Palpal organs prominent and 

 highly developed. A long very prominent circularly-curved 

 black tapering spine issues from near the base on the outer side 

 of a large prominent corneous process, and has its filiform point 

 in a kind of coil beyond the extremity of the palpal organs on 

 their inner side. Just in front of the base of this long black 

 spine there issues forwards, from within a strong hollow 

 corneous process, a tolerably long, slightly curved, black 

 pointed spine, directed forwards and inwards beneath the fore 

 extremity of the digital joint. 



Fakes, maxilla, and labium dark yellowish-brown. 



Sternum as broad, or broader, than long, very convex, and of 

 a shining black-brown colour. 



Abdomen short, oval, black, and covered with short hairs. 



An adult male of this spider was found by Mr. W. Evans in 

 the Isle of Bute some years ago, and was mistaken for a closely- 

 allied species Cnephalocotes curtus, Sim. 



Tapinoeyba insecta? L. Koch. Pi. B, Figs. 20, 21, 22, 23. 



? Erigone insecta, L. Koch, Beitr. z. Kenntniss der Arachniden 



fauna Tirols Naturwissenschaftliche Abtheilung, 1868, II., p. 187. 



Plcesiocrcerus insectus, L. Koch-Sim., Arachn. de France, V., 



P- 774- 

 Adult male, length i line ; adult female i line. 



