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longest); they are also nearer together than in that species 

 and in a straight line, and all three are vertical or very 

 nearly so. The denticulse (5-6) on the eye-eminence are always 

 present, and quite distinct, though of small size. The abdominal 

 segments are also furnished with transverse rows of minute spines 

 or denticulae. The legs are moderately long, 2, 4, 3, 1, of a 

 brownish-yellow hue marked with reddish brown chiefly in slender 

 longitudinal lines along the angles of the femora, genuce, and tibiae. 

 The armature of the legs is very similar to that 0. agrestis, but is 

 stronger. The genital plate has no notch in the margin of the 

 fore extremity. The .male is similarly though more richly coloured 

 than the female, but is of a narrower form, and the armature of 

 the different parts is stronger. 



This is a tolerably abundant species, at the end of summer and 

 in autumn, among grass, rushes, moss, and debris in damp places, and 

 swamps, in the Bloxworth district, but is not so abundant nor 

 so generally distributed as 0. agrestis. I have received it from 

 the Cheviot Hills from Mr. James Hardy, also from co. Wicklow, 

 Ireland, from Mr. G. H. Carpenter, and do not doubt but that if it 

 were looked for it would be found very generally distributed, in 

 suitable situations throughout England. 



OLIGOLOPHUS PALPINALIS. 



Opilio palpinalis Herbst (1799). 



Opilio terricola C. L. Koch Meade (1855). 

 PL D, fig. 20. 



Female, length, 2J to 2| lines ; male, 1 J to 2 lines. 



The general colouring of this species is yellowish brown, with 

 richer-brown markings. The dorsal abdominal band is large, 

 scarcely angulated, but often slightly tapering (behind the con- 

 striction near the thorax) towards the end ; it is sometimes almost 

 obsolete ; the three characteristic spines at the middle of the 

 fore margin of the caput are strong, close to each other in 

 a straight transverse line, nearly vertical (slightly directed 

 forwards), the middle one a little longer than the others ; in 



