112 NEW AXD RAKE BRITISH SPIDERS. 



The whole of the fore part of this spider is yellowish red-brown. 

 The cepltdlothorax is clothed with a few long dark hairs and some 

 short pale pubescence. The legs are rather long 4, 1, 2, 3, 

 furnished with hairs, bristles, and (chiefly on those of the two 

 hinder pairs) with fine spines, and there is a thin scopula beneath 

 the tarsi. The colour of the abdomen is dull clay, with a 

 short reddish yellow-brown wedge-shaped coriaceous patch on the 

 front part of the upper side, and pretty thickly clothed with coarse 

 dark hairs, and its shape is somewhat cylindric-oval. In form and 

 general appearance P. rustica is of the ordinary type. The eyes are 

 all pale grey, almost of equal size, and closely grouped together in 

 two nearly parallel transverse lines of almost equal length. Those 

 of the anterior row are contiguous to each other ; the hind-central 

 pair are of irregular, somewhat oval, form, and also contiguous to each 

 other ; the laterals are near to them but not contiguous. The palpi 

 are moderate in length ; the radial is shorter than the cubital joint, 

 and has its outer extremity produced into a curved, tapering, sharp- 

 pointed apophysis, the joint directed upwards. The length of this 

 apophysis is about equal to the breadth of the joint at that part. 

 The digital joint is of moderate size, oval, pointed in front, and 

 suffused with brown. The palpal organs are rather prominent, but 

 compact, with corneous lobes and processes. The spinners are 

 rather long, those of the inferior pair strongest and cylindric, and 

 of a reddish yellow-brown hue. This spider is of great rarity on 

 the Continent of Europe, and may easily be distinguished from 

 others of this group by its reddish yellow-brown colouring, to 

 which there is no approach in any other British species known to 

 me. Dr. Blackmore has met with two adult males of it at 

 different times, one wandering at night in 1886, the other more 

 recently under an old board in his garden at Salisbury. A female 

 was also found, but it was, unfortunately, destroyed before it could 

 be forwarded to me. 



FAM : AGELEXID.E. 

 TEGENARIA GUYONII (Guerin-Meneville). 

 Tegenaria Guyonii Cambr. "Spid. Dors." 473, 



