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short herbage on the seashore) I fancied that the Brighton spider 

 might be Attus rupicola, C. L. Koch, but it differs from that 

 species also in the same respects and quite as distinctly as from the 

 Hartford species, and from types of both A. foricola, C. L. Koch, 

 and A. rupicola, ibid., received from Dr. L. Koch himself. It 

 appears to agree well with A. mancus, Thor, and I am inclined 

 to consider it a good species, though M. Simon thinks that 

 A. mancus, Thor., is only a variety of A. floricola, C. L. Koch. In 

 the females of the Hartford species, the Brighton one and Attus 

 rupicola, C. L. K. (German type), the epigyne differs slightly in 

 form. 



ORDER PHALANGIDEA. 



FAM. PHALANGIID.E. 



OLIGOLOPHUS, Sim. 

 OLIGOLOPHUS HANSENII. 



Acantholophus Hansenii, Kraepelin. Mittheil : dem Natur- 

 historischen Museum, xiii. (Beiheft zum Jahrbuch der Hamburg- 

 ischen "Wissenschaffiichen Anstalten, xiii.), p. 232 (Hamburg 1896). 



Acantholophus ephippiger, Hansen. Naturh. Tidskr. (3), xiv., 

 p. 511, 1884. 



This species is very nearly allied to Oligolophus tridens, C. L. 

 Koch, but may be at once distinguished by a difference in the three 

 prominent spines at the fore-margin of the caput. These in 0. 

 Hansenii are placed close together, their bases contiguous, and are 

 stouter. The spinous tubercles on the palpi also differ, and the 

 hinder part of the abdomen is shorter and rounder. The general 

 colouring is darker, and the spines on the eye-eminence are stronger. 

 On the abdomen the dark, central dorsal band (which is truncate 

 at its posterior extremity) has (in fine specimens) its margins 

 marked with a broken white line or spots. The femora of the legs 

 are cylindrical, whereas in 0. tridens they are angular. 0. Hansenii 

 is also very nearly allied to 0. agrestis, Meade (0. ephippiger}, Sim., 

 but may easily be distinguished, not only by difference of colouring, 

 but by the genital plate in 0. agrestis being distinctly emarginate 



