114 NEW AND RARE RRITISH SPIDERS. 



inches into the loose gravel or some natural crevice in the soil. It 

 generally divides into two passages, one of which appears to serve 

 as a kind of larder, and is encumbered with the cttbris of small 

 beetles and wood lice, upon which no doubt they feed. The other 

 passage ends in a rough sort of chamber, occupied by the female 

 spider, and its young. The egg-cocoon is lenticular, flat beneath, 

 convex above, and the eggs are enclosed in a fine close-textured 

 silk fabric, like thin white paper. 



FAMILY THERIDIID^E. 

 GEN : ENOPLOGNATHA (Pav.) 



The genus Enoplngnatlia corresponds to Drepanodtis (Menge), and 

 includes a portion of the genus Neriene (BL), with which it is 

 connected by strong affinities. It may, however, be distinguished 

 at once by the palpi of the female ending with a distinct claw. It 

 is also allied to Epeira, but may be recognised from that group by 

 the entire absence of spines from the legs, as well as by the form 

 of the maxillae. From Thendion, the possession by the male of a 

 stridulating organ at once separates it. 



ENOPLOGNATHA CAUICIS (Fickert). 

 PL A, fig. 4. 



Steatoda cartels Fickert, Zeitschr : f iir. Entom. Neuefolge, H. v., 

 p. 29. 



Enoplognatha caricis Fickert, Simon, Arachn : de France, 5, p. 

 188, exclude synonym. 



Adult female, length 2| lines. 



The cephalotJiorax, leys, palpi, and falces are of a yellow-brown 

 colour, the maxillae, labium, and sternum darker brown. The 

 abdomen is of a dull luteous yellow-brown, the greater part of the 

 upper side occupied by a large leaf-like pattern of black, bordered 

 with a white line ; the black is not regularly disposed over this 

 pattern, but is chiefly gathered into two large patches in front (one 

 on each side of the anterior extremity) and a large patch at the 

 posterior extremity ; the position of the dorsal vessel is indicated 

 by a white irregular line, enclosing an elongate red-brown marking 



