14 OX NEW AND HAKE BRITISH SPIDERS. 



a patch at tho junction of tho caput and thorax of deep black- 

 brown. The height of the clypeus considerably exceeds half that 

 of the facial space. 



Ejes of moderate size and almost equal, placed on a rather 

 compact trunsvorse-oval area ; those of tho posterior row are 

 equally separated from each other, the intervals being very 

 small, no more than half an eye's diameter. 



Legs moderately long, but not greatly different in length, slen- 

 der, of a bright orange-rod colour, furnished with h lirs and a 

 very few slender erect bristles; relative length, 4, 1, 2, 3. 



Palpi rather short, cubital an'l radial joints about equal in 

 length, tho latter is strongest, the former being a little gibbous 

 in front, where there is a prominent, slender, sinuous black 

 bristle ; their colour is dark, especially the digital joint, which is 

 nearly black; this joint has its posterior extremity prolonged into 

 an obtusely-conical for.n flattened or rather concave on the 

 outer side; looked at from tho outer side rather in front, this pro. 

 longation has a longish slightly curved hornlike appearance- The 

 palpal organs are comnlox and well developed, but tolerably 

 compact. 



Falces short, perpendicular, weak, and similar in colour to the 

 cephalo-thorax. 



Maxillae strong and straight, strongly inclined to the 

 labium, and paler in colour, than the falces. 



Labium small, short and in tho form of a segment of a circle 

 Abdomen short-oval considerably convex above, glossy black 

 sparingly clothed with short hair^, an. I scarcely projesting over 

 tho base of the cephalothorax. 



Sternum heart-shaped, shining, very convex above and similar 

 in colour to tho cophalo-thorax. 



Tho fomale is a little larger than tho male and slightly less 

 deep in colouring ; tho genital process is large and projects 

 nearly perpendicularly from the surface of the abdomen the 

 palpi are black and the digital joint is a little incrassated. 



