208 Ilev. O. P. Cambridge on some 



species, by the very narrow form of the digital joints of the 

 palpi. 



Genus DlvEA, Trior. 



Dicea devoniensis, sp. n. 



Length of an immature female, nearly 2h lines. 



The cephalotlwrax, legs, palpi, and other fore parts are of 

 a brownish-yellow colour, tinged with reddish ; a rather 

 radiated area at the thoracic junction suffused with whitish. 

 The metatarsi, and the larger portion of the tibise of the first 

 two pairs, are armed beneath with two parallel longitudinal 

 rows of spines. 



The eyes of the hind-central pair are nearer to each other 

 than each is to the lateral eye next to it. The four central 

 eyes form a square, the anterior side being a little shorter 

 than the posterior one. 



The abdomen is oval, of a pale dull brownish-yellow colour 

 mottled with yellowish-white, and with some pale transverse 

 lines along the middle of the uppcrside. 



The spider above described was received some years ago 

 from the late Rev. Hamlet Clark, by whom it was found near 

 Torquay. It has been mislaid, and so overlooked until re- 

 cently. M. Simon, who has examined this specimen, is of 

 opinion that it belongs to an undescribed species. It is 

 certainly very distinct from any other British Thomisid ; 

 probably, however, the colours have faded since it was 

 caught. 



The following spiders are now for the first time recorded as 

 British : — 



Genus Gnapiiosa, Latr. 



Gnaphosa lugubris. 



Gnaphosa Inyubris, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn. vi. p. CO, Taf. exev. fig. 473 ; 

 E. Simon, Arachn. d. France, iv. p. 174. 



I have met with the female in the adult state in the months 

 of September 1878 and April 1879, under old turves on 

 Bloxworth Heath, together with numerous immature indivi- 

 duals of both sexes. It is nearly allied to Gnaphosa anglica, 

 Cambr., but is larger and differs in the structure of the genital 

 aperture, although resembling that species very closely in 

 general form and colours. 



