12 ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 



catod by blackish converging stripes, the ground colour being 

 dark yellowish brown. The lateral marginal indentations tit 

 the caput are very slight. 



The eyes are of moderate sizo, in two transverse curved rows, 

 curved away from each other, i.e., the curve of the anterior row 

 is directed forward, while that of the posterior row is directed 

 backwards ; those of the posterior row are separated from each 

 other by equal intervals of an eye's diameter ; the anterior row 

 is shortest, and its two central eyes (the smallest and darkest of 

 the eight) are nearly, if not quite, contiguous to each other. The 

 four central ej'os form a square, whose anterior side is shortest, 

 and those of each lateral pair are contiguous to each other, and 

 placed obliquely on a black tubercle. 



The legs are rather slender, moderately long, 4, 1, 2, 3, of a 

 reddish brown colour, the genual joints paler, furnished with 

 hairs, bristles, one or two of which, on the femora and tibia? of 

 the 3rd and 4th pairs, may be call cd slender spines. 



The falces are moderate in length and strength, nearly 

 vertical, slightly divergent at their extremity, towards which, on 

 the upper side at the inner margin, is a distinct but not very 

 strong tooth. 



The maxilke are short and strong, obliquely terminated at the 

 extremity on the outer side, and converging towards the labium, 

 which is small and of a semicircular form. 



Sternnm large and heart-shaped. The colour of the falces, 

 maxillfo, labium and sternum is dark yellow-brown tinged 

 slightly with reddish, the sternum being darkest. 



The palpi are short, particularly the cubital joint ; the 

 radial joint is much stronger than the cubital, of a rounded and 

 spreading form, being, in fact somewhat bell-shaped, slightly 

 and obtusely pointed in front at the middle of the anterior 

 extremity. The digital joint is oval, of fair size, and 

 a little prominent "aT the base on the outer side. 

 The palpal organs are well developed, complex, one 

 or two rather prominent processes (oue large and 



