200 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on some 



tubercles, each terminating with a fine hair ; and on their 

 inner sides are some sharp teeth, the longest and strongest 

 of which is placed in front of the rest, just at the point where 

 the attenuation begins. 



The maxillce are strong, much bent and inclined to the 

 labium, and furnished on their outer sides with some denti- 

 form tubercles, each of which ends with a bristle. 



The labium is very short, truncated at its apex, and (with 

 the maxilla?) of the same colour as the falces. 



The sternum is large, heart-shaped, very finely punctuose, 

 and of a deep blackish-brown colour. 



The abdomen is oval, moderately convex above, and pro- 

 jects a little over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a 

 dark blackish olive-green hue, thickly covered (when seen 

 through spirit) with pale yellowish lines and spots, and 

 clothed with short hairs. The spinners are short, of a pale 

 colour, and placed in a sort of sunken hollow, or pit, of a 

 circular form. A little way in front of them, beneath the 

 abdomen, are two parallel transverse folds in the epidermis, 

 within which I conceive there may be the external orifices to 

 some supernumerary breathing-organs. 



A single example of this very distinct spider was found by 

 myself among moss in a fir- plantation near Bloxworth, on the 

 17th of May, 1879. It is evidently closely allied to Neriene 

 sulcata, Bl., a spider I have never seen ; but as Mr. Black- 

 wall does not mention the very remarkable and easily-observed 

 characters furnished by the tubercles on the falces and max- 

 illa?, I think there can be no doubt of its specific difference. 



Neriene nefaria, sp. n. (PL XII. fig. 4.) 



Length of the adult male 1 line. 



The ceplialotlwrax is of ordinary form ; the lateral con- 

 striction on the lateral margins of the caput is slight, the 

 occiput a little rounded, and with only a slight depression 

 between it and the thoracic indentation. The oblique indenta- 

 tions marking the junction of the caput and thorax are strong, 

 and, together with those on the thorax, are marked by dusky 

 black converging lines, the general ground-colour being dull 

 greenish olive yellow-brown, with a black marginal line. 

 The height of the clypeus, which is a little gibbous or rounded 

 in profile, is rather more than half that of the facial space. 



The eyes are in two curved rows, well separated from each 

 other, and occupying the whole width of the upper part of 

 the caput, the curve of the posterior row being the strongest. 

 The length of the anterior row is but very slightly shorter 

 than that of the posterior one ; the eyes of each of the lateral 



