90 Rev. F. O. Pickard-Cambridge on 



Epi(iyne conspicuous, consisting of a broad, oval, cliitinou> 

 plate, wrinkled above, its posterior margin raised in tlie centre 

 and furnished with a small prominence, sinuous, and raised 

 from the abdomen. 



The male, of which sex only a single immature specimen 

 has been taken, is similar to the female ; the radial joints of 

 the ])alpi are very prominent, and suggest some curious deve- 

 lopment when mature. 



Four adult females and a single immature male were taken 

 by myself running in the sunshine on railings at Southwell, 

 Notts, in July 1892. 



Hillhousia turhatrix^ Cb. (PI. I. fig. 3.) 

 (Spid. Dor. p. 454, sub Linypkia.) 



Length of male 1 line. 



Tt has always appeared to me that this little spider pre- 

 sents features which separate it very decidedly from its near 

 relations, and I have several times meditated forming a new 

 genus for its reception. 



The discovery of the spider last described, exhibiting the 

 same excavation at the base of the cephalothorax, has induced 

 me to place them both under the genus Hillhousia, though 

 turhatrix differs considerably in not exhibiting the raised 

 caput, but is otherwise sufHciently similar. 



No figures of turhatrix having, I believe, been published 

 before, 1 take this opportunity of supplying them. 



The spiders, adult males and females, were taken by myself 

 in Hyde Bog, Dorset, in 1888. The type specimens, also 

 taken in Dorset, were kindly forwarded for my inspection by 

 the Rev. O. Piekard Cambridge, and from these the figures 

 published with this paper were taken. 



Genus MiCRONETA. 

 Microneta dypeata, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 5.) 



Length of adult male 1 line. 



Cephalothorax circular-oval, convex, narrowed in front, 

 dull yellow, veined with brown, with central and lateral stri;i? 

 of the same hue; marginal line dark brown. 



Fi/is small, very close together: posterior row equidistant, 

 half a diameter apart, slightly curved, convexity backward, 

 centrals very slightly larger; anterior row straight or 

 nearly so, centrals smaller, almost in contact, one half a 

 diameter from the laterals. 



