some obscure British Spiders. 83 



several more genera {vide Table of Genera), the metatarsi of 

 the first and second pairs of legs shorter than the tibiae. 

 The eyes are large and near together (closely grouped to- 

 gether) . 



The genus may be best recognized by the fact that the 

 lateral eyes are placed upon a conspicuous oblique prominence. 

 The caput is not so rounded and bluff as in the genus 

 Tmeticus. 



The falces of the males are much attenuated and divergent 

 towards the apex and hollowed out on the inner margin, 

 unlike those of Leptyphantes and Bathyphantes, whose falces 

 are only very slightly divergent and narrowed at the apex. 

 This genus exhibits no metatarsal spines. 



Microneta sublimis, Cambr., 1875. 

 (PI. II. fig. VII. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.) 



Neriene sublimis, Cambr. List of Aran, and Phalan. Berwickshire and 

 Northumberland, 1875; Spid. of Dorset, p. 491. 



Length of male 1 line, female 1 line. 



Cephalothorax pale sepia-brown, margined and tinged along 

 the segmentary strioe with darker brown, exhibiting a darker 

 spot at the point of convergence of the cephalic strioe. 



Abdomen short, convex, black, glossy, clothed with fine short 

 pubescence. 



Legs pale orange-yellow, femora brighter orange. 



Sternum black, not very convex, bearing some short erect 

 hairs. 



Caput not prominent (except where the anterior central 

 eyes project over theclypeus), bearing a few curving hairs. 



Eyes of the posterior row situated in a slightly curving 

 line, its convexity directed backwards ; equidistant, separated 

 by one diameter, the centrals slightly larger than the laterals. 

 Eyes of the anterior row situated in a straight line, the cen- 

 trals smaller than the laterals, separated from them by one 

 diameter, from each other by half of one of their diameters. 



Clypeus barely as high as the width of the ocular area, very 

 slightly concave, bearing a single, short, upcurving bristle 

 just below the eyes. 



Falces at least four times as long as the height of the 

 clypeus. Basal joint stout, convex, almost parallel, and not 

 attenuated in the female, bearing on the inner angle two sharp 

 teeth and some smaller ones below ; in the male sex much 

 more convex, very divergent and attenuated, very concave on 

 the inner side towards the apex, bearing at the most promi- 

 nent point of the angle three small teeth, also a row of fine 

 hairs between these and the apex ; furnished also with a single 



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