BRITISH SPECIES OF PHALANGIDEA OR HAREEST MEN. 201 



(4 or 5 each), small but distinct denticulse. The legs are rather 

 long and tolerably robust, they have the femora and genuse armed 

 with minute denticulse, and at the fore extremity on the upper 

 side of each of the two latter joints are two denticulse of a larger 

 size. The abdominal segments have a few very minute denticulse 

 along their posterior margins. 



The palpi are furnished with numerous coarse hairs, and there 

 are some small blunt denticulse ending with minute black spines 

 along the fore side of the humeral joint. 



The male is smaller, and has the abdominal dorsal band darker 

 and more distinct than the female. The legs also in this sex are 

 longer, and the denticulse on the different parts rather stronger. 



Mr. Meade speaks of this species as abundant in various parts 

 of England and Wales at the roots of grass, meadows, and pastures in 

 summer. I have myself only met with it, though fairly common, 

 among low plants, grass, and herbage in woods at Bloxworth and 

 its neighbourhood at the end of June, and near Hoddesdon in 

 Hertfordshire early in July. That these examples are identical 

 with Mr. Meade's has been proved by comparison with types kindly 

 lent to me by himself. 



M. Simon includes Koch's Acantholophus epJdppiatus (which I 

 feel no doubt is the same as our British form) among the species 

 of Acantholophus, not known in France, but I am convinced that 

 Oligolophus vittiger Sim. is the same as the species now recorded, 

 and which presents, as far as I can see, no characters to justify its 

 separation from the genus Oligolophus. 



OLIGOLOPHUS SPINOSUS. 

 Phalangium spinosum Bosc, 1792. 

 Opilio histrix Latr (Meade, 1855). 

 Acantholophus spinosus, Sim., 1879. 



PI. E, fig. 25. 



Female, length, 3 J to 4J lines ; male, 3 lines. 

 General colour dull brownish-yellow or clay colour, mottled and 

 marked with a paler hue, as well as with different shades of brown. 



