S'liiihrs uew to the llritisli FaniHt. 20,3 



Bavaria. M. Simon records tlie spider from both tlie iiortli 

 and south of Franco and from Corsica, while MM. ('hyzer 

 rnd Kulczyiiski found it on the Croatian shore of the Adriatic 

 (Finnic). It seems therefore to belong to a southern distri- 

 buliorial type. 



This is tlie fourth species of Cnephahcotes whicii has been 

 lidded to the British list within recent years. The genus was 

 represented in our fauna only by C. obscurus (Bl.) * until 

 1888, when Mr. Cambridge described as a new species 

 C. interjt'Ctus'\ t'roni Hertfordshire; this spider, lately 

 recorded from the Edinburgh district \, is now believed to be 

 identical with C. hesus, L. Koch §, from Central Siberia. In 

 lbi.>4 two more species of Cneplmlocotes — C. cartas, Simon, 

 and C. efrganSj Camb. — were added to the British list ||, the 

 former occurring on the shores of the Firth of t^orth, the 

 latter in Inverness-shire. C. cartas has since been found on 

 the west coasts of Scotland and Ireland^. C. sihis makes, 

 therefore, the fifth species of the genus known to inhabit our 

 islands. 



The species of Cneplialocotes are small ilark-colourcd spiders 

 with strongly chitinized skin and short blunt carapace; eyes 

 small, those of the hinder row moderately procurved, the 

 centrals nearer to each other than to the laterals **. The very 

 wide sternum is ])roduced between the hindmost haunches in 

 a broad, blunt, rounded process. Tlie legs are short and stout, 

 the front tarsi being fusiform (especially in the male) and 

 nearly as long as the metatarsi. Tlie tibia of the male palp 

 is usually broad and truncate, with one or twoslurt processes; 

 the tarsus is always large and the bulb prominent, with a free- 

 ended, coiled, thread-like spine. 



The males of our British species may be tabulated thus: — 



I. Ilead-rcgiou more or less olcvated, distinct impres- 

 fcioiis running backward from lateral eyes. 

 1. Tibia of palp above with au internal blunt and 



• Rlackwall, Spid. Gt. Brit. Irel. (If'fi4) pp. 297-8, pi. xx. fig. 212. 



t O. 1'. Cambridge, Trans. Il.-rts. \at. Hist.Soc. v. (1888) p. 18; Proc. 

 Dorset Field-Club, x. (166\)) pp. 121 2, pi. A. Kg. 0. 



J O. 1'. Cambridge, Proc. Dom-t Fiold-Club, xvii. (1890) p. 00. 



§ L. Koch, Kongl. Sven.»k. Vfti-nsk.-Akad. Handl. xvi. (1878) no. 5, 

 p. 07, pi. ii. tig. 19. See \V. Kulczynski, 'Fauna Arauearum Austrite 

 inferions ' (Cracow, 1898), pp. 0.'{-4. 



II 0. P. Cambridge, Proc. Dorset Field-Club, xv. (1894) ji. 112, fig. 4; 

 G. H. Carpenter and \V. Hvans, Proc. K. Phys. Soc. Kdinb. xii. (1894) 

 jip. o72-;i ; Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. 1894, p. 232. 



%, (i. H. Carpenter, Proc. R. Irish .Vcad. (.i) v. (1898) p. 1(J2. 



** In the large and closely allied genus L<>/>/iocarpni(>u, .Mi-nge, the eyes 

 of the hind row are equidistant and the row greatly procurved ; also the 

 skin in Loj>/iocareiiiini is more strongly coriaceous. 



