182 BRITISH SPECIES OF PHALANGIDEA OR HARVEST MEN. 



yellowish white, more or less distinctly and broadly annulated 

 with dark yellow-brown. 



The armature of the cephalothorax, abdomen, and legs appears 

 to resemble in its general characters that of P. parietinum. It is 

 the strongest in the male. 



The eye-eminence is small, and placed distinctly nearer to the 

 fore margin of the abdomen than to that of the caput, and nearer 

 in proportion than in P. parietinum \ the denticulse on its summit 

 are also fewer and less strong than in that species. 



The male is of the usual shorter broader form than that of the 

 female ; it has the pattern on the abdomen less distinct than 

 in that sex, and is commonly of a more generally suffused yellow- 

 brownish hue. The metatarsi of the first pair of legs are shorter 

 than usual and have no false joints in either sex. The denticulae 

 on the abdomen of the male are thickly studded in the rows and 

 rather strong, while in the female they are almost obsolete. 



This species can scarcely be confounded with either P. opilio or 

 P. parietinum, being so much smaller and greyer in hue, and with 

 the central longitudinal row of white or yellowish spots on the 

 abdomen always more or less conspicuous. It is found under 

 stones and at the roots and base of herbage. I have met with it 

 abundantly in the Isle of Portland, in Purbeck, and on other parts 

 of the coast district, as well as (less commonly) in woods and 

 hedges and on heaths and downs in the Bloxworth district. It 

 seems to me to be most abundant in the chalk and limestone 

 formations, though by no means confined to them. 



PHALANGIUM MINUTUM. 



Phalangium minutum Meade (1853). 



I have never seen an example of this species, and the types are 

 unfortunately lost. I can, therefore, only give here a transcription 

 of Mr. Meade's characters of it. 



Length f lines. Body rather short and wide ; Cephalothorax 

 large, with a considerable-sized eye-eminence, crested with blunted 

 tubercles. The colour is whitish or yellowish gray. The front 



