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The legs are tolerably strong, but not very long ; and their 

 relative length appears to be 4, 1, 2, 3 ; they are furnished 

 with hairs and a very few spines ; each tarsus ends with two 

 curved pectinated claws, and beneath the tarsi are some papil- 

 liform hairs. 



The falces are long, strong, prominent at their base in front, 

 and project (though not very strongly) forwards ; their front 

 surface is furnished with longish bristly hairs. 



The maxillce and labium are of normal form. 



The sternum is heart-shaped and glossy. 



The abdomen is rather large, of an oval form, slightly trun- 

 cated before, and not very thickly clothed with hairs ; its colour 

 is dull yellow-brown, darker along the middle of the upper- 

 side, where a very distinct pattern is shown, consisting of a 

 strongish, wedge-shaped, dark brown, central, longitudinal 

 marking on the fore part, followed to the spinners by a series 

 of confluent angular bars or chevrons of a similar colour ; 

 the vertices of the angles are directed forwards ; but the 

 bars do not extend to the sides. The wedge-shaped brown 

 marking has a paler indistinct line along the middle, and two 

 or three irregular pale markings on either side of its hinder 

 half. The spinners are of moderate size ; those of the inferior 

 pair are longer and stronger than those of the superior. The 

 form of the genital aperture (which is rather large) is cha- 

 racteristic ; its inner margins appear to be corneous and of 

 a bright red-brown colour. 



An example of this species, which is certainly new to Bri- 

 tain, and also, I believe, undescribed, was found by myself 

 under a stone on Blox worth Heath in May 1874. 



Genus Lethia, Menge. 

 Lethia subniger. 

 Drassus subniger, Cambr. Trans. Liun. Soc. xxviii. p. 439, pi. 33. fig. 3. 

 A recent close examination of this litttle spider has con- 

 vinced me that it belongs to the genus Lethia ; doubts con- 

 cerning its generic affinities have been expressed I. c. supra. 



Genus Erigone (Neriene, Bl.). 

 Erigone Clarkii. 

 Erigone Clarkii, Cambr. Linn. Trans, xxvii. p. 441, pi. 56. no. 30. 

 An adult male of this spider (being only the third example 

 of the species yet on record) was found by my son, Robert 

 Jocelyn, on iron railings enclosing the lawn at Bloxworth 

 Rectory, on the 24th of March, 1875. 



