NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 123 



The eyes form a large quadrate figure broader than long, and its 

 anterior shorter than its posterior side. The anterior TOAV is curved 

 (i.e., when looked at from above and behind). Its two central eyes 

 are nearly contiguous to each other ; its two laterals are very much 

 smaller and separated from the centrals by nearly a diameter's 

 interval. The small eyes of the middle row are nearer to the fore 

 laterals than to the eyes of the posterior row. 



The legs are black to black-brown, with reddish tarsi and meta- 

 tarsi. The posterior half of the tibiae of the first pair are vivid 

 shining red. Their relative length is (male) 3, 1, 4, 2. Those of the 

 first pair are much the strongest. All are clothed with hairs some 

 along the fore sides being white, and the metatarsi are armed with 

 spines, though these are not similarly disposed on all the legs. 

 Each tarsus ends with a strong black claw tuft. 



The palpi are moderately long, black, the fore part of the 

 humeral, and also the radial joints thickly clothed with shining 

 white hairs ; radial joint short with a rather longish obtusely- 

 pointed apophysis, directed forwards at its fore extremity on the 

 outer side. The digital joint is large, elongate-oval, with two 

 strong, sharp-pointed, slightly curved, corneous looking projections 

 in a linear direction, not far apart, near its base on the outer side. 

 The points of these projections are opposed to each other, and look 

 somewhat like a pair of short nippers. The palpal organs are 

 simple, consisting of a very large, prominent, roundish, or oblong- 

 oval, corneous bulb. 



The abdomen is oval, slightly truncated before. Its colour on 

 the upper side is black to blackish-brown, clothed with hairs and 

 hairy pubescence. A longitudinal central white-haired stripe 

 bisects the upper side, broken into spots at its hinder part. This 

 band is divided transversely by an indistinct curved band of 

 yellowish hairs, traversing the upper part and sides, and again 

 midway between that and the spinners by a very conspicuous 

 parallel stripe of white hairs running through the third, from the end, 

 of the three white spots of the central stripe. The four large 

 patches formed by this pattern are jet black. The hairs clothing 



