BRITISH SPECIES OF PHALANGIDEA OR HARVEST MEN. 191 



from the fore margin of the caput, that it is from the abdominal 

 division. 



The legs are long, 2, 4, 1, 3 moderately strong, dull yellowish, 

 marked and striped or, in parts, suffused with brown. The femora 

 and genuse are armed with minute spines or denticulse. 



Palpi moderately long, similar to the legs in colour and 

 markings. The extremity of the humeral joint on the inner side 

 is slightly produced and furnished with a tuft of hairs. The 

 cubital and radial joints are strong, and thickly clothed (mostly on 

 the inner side) with short hairs. 



Falces moderately long and strong. 



The male differs much in general appearance and colour from 

 the female. It is of a shorter, more quadrate form ; the abdominal 

 dorsal band, including the cephalothorax, is black, as are, more or 

 less, the legs and palpi. This band joins in posteriorly with the 

 black colour of the sides and the other surrounding parts and is 

 often lost in it, though in some (especially the Scotch examples) it 

 is still well denned by a white or yellowish marginal border. The 

 denticulae on the abdomen are stronger and more conspicuous, 

 forming transverse white rows. Those also on the cephalothorax, 

 eye-eminence, and legs are likewise stronger, and there are a few 

 beneath the tibise of the first pair ; there are likewise some on the 

 upper side of the anterior extremity of the first joint of the falces 

 as well as at the base of the second joint. The under side, as well 

 as that part of the upper side and sides not suffused with black, are 

 yellowish white, offering a strong contrast in the general appearance. 



This species is abundant among grass and other herbage, also on 

 low bushes, underwood, &c., as well as running on tree trunks, and 

 secreted under stones, and appears to be generally distributed. Its 

 usual time of attaining maturity is the summer and autumn. 

 Examples received from near Glasgow and other parts of Scotland 

 were larger and more richly coloured than any I have ever met 

 with in England, the abdominal band being in these deep yellow- 

 brown, pale along the middle, broadly margined with black, and 

 surrounded with a very distinct whitish yellow border ; the 



