14 NOTES ON BRITISH SPIDERS. 



slope, which last is rather abrupt. Normal grooves and inden- 

 tations very slight. Colour yellowish brown, narrowly margined 

 with blackish brown, and the sides obscurely shaded and 

 slenderly and somewhat irregularly marked with deep brown 

 scratchy lines : an irregular patch of the same colour marks the 

 junction of the caput and thorax. 



Eyes, in normal position. The fore-centrals are separated by 

 an eye's diameter, each being contiguous (when looked at from 

 above) to the fore-lateral on its side. The fore-laterals appear 

 to be the largest of the eight ; the fore-centrals are seated at the 

 anterior extremity of a slight prominence within the ocular area. 

 The eyes of the hinder row are in a very nearly straight 

 transverse line, the convexity of the curve, if any, being slightly 

 directed forwards. The intervals between the eyes of this row 

 are equal, and the centrals are apparently smaller than the 

 laterals. The trapezoid of the four central eyes is nearly a 

 square, whose fore-side is rather shorter than the rest. The 

 length (from back to front) of the ocular area is nearly about 

 half its breadth behind. 



Fakes, not large, but prominent in front, straight, furnished 

 with strong prominent bristles, and similar in colour to the 

 cephalothorax. 



Legs, short, strong, furnished with coarse hairs, bristles, and 

 spines 4, i, 2, 3. Coxae and femora rather paler in colour than 

 the cephalothorax. The femora unusually strong, and a little 

 suffused with a darker hue on the outer side ; the genuse, tibiae, 

 and metatarsi deep brown, the tarsi paler. 



Palpi, pale yellow-brown, deepening towards their extremity 

 into a darker line. 



Maxilla and Labium, of normal form ; colour, yellow-brown. 



Sternum, short-oval, pointed behind, central portion flat ; 

 surface shining, and marked with a few minute impressed points ; 

 margins well rounded ; colour deep yellow-brown. 



Abdomen, oblong, rounded behind, rather truncate before, and 

 somewhat flattened-convex above ; colour, deep black-brown, 

 hairs short, a number of prominent black bristles in front! 



