200 BRITISH SPECIES OF PHALANGIDEA OR HARVEST MEN. 



render it easily distinguishable from all others known to me 

 as yet. 



I have found it frequently, but not abundantly, under old turves 

 and among heather stems and roots on the heath at Bloxworth. 

 It gives me great pleasure to connect this species with the name 

 of my old and earliest instructor on the subject of Spiders and 

 Harvest-Men Mr. K. H. Meade, of Bradford. 



OLIGOLOPHUS EPHIPPIATUS. 



Acantlwloplius ephippiatus C. L. Koch. 



Oligoloplms vittiger Sim., 1879. 



Opilio ephippiatus C. L. Koch (Meade, 1855). 

 PI. E, fig. 24. 



Female, length, 2J to 3J lines ; male, 2 to 2J lines. 



The general colouring of this very distinct species is a cream 

 yellow, minutely marked and spotted with white on the abdomen, 

 the legs being pale yellowish, striped with brown and suffused with 

 yellow brown at the anterior extremities of the femora, genuae, and 

 tibiae, giving them an annulated appearance. The fore half of the 

 tibiae of the first pair are often nearly black. The ceplialotlwrax is 

 marked with yellow-brown in continuation of the normal dorsal 

 abdominal band, which is broad, of a rich deep brown, often 

 approaching black, and not angulated, the sides being almost 

 parallel, excepting a slight constriction followed by an 

 enlargement towards the thorax : the posterior extremity of the 

 band is squarely and very distinctly truncated at the third segment, 

 and (but rarely) followed by one or two brown spots towards the 

 extremity of the abdomen. On the anterior margin of the caput, 

 in the centre, is an eminence on which are the three characteristic 

 spines, or strong denticulse, in a transverse line, near together, of 

 equal length, rather directed forward, the middle one slightly in 

 advance of the others ; behind these are two others, shorter and of 

 less size. The margins of the cephalothorax are armed with several 

 short spines, or denticulce. The eye-eminence is rather small, and 

 armed on the top with two rows, rather close together, of several 



