Rev. O. P. Cambridge on British Spiders. 7 



N. rufipes of Blackwall can scarcely be determined until I 

 shall have been fortunate enough to meet with their respec- 

 tive males ; either of them would fairly answer to Mr. Black- 

 wall's descri])tion, though, in regard to the type of N. 

 formidabilis^ it may be remarked that the late Mr. Blackwall 

 examined it some years ago, and returned it to me as unknown 

 to him. 



Neriene laudata^ Cambr. (PI. I. fig. 3.) 

 Walcken^era laudata, Cambr. Spiders of Dorset, p. 591. 



I have again met with this spider during the summer of 

 1881 on Bloxworth Heath ; and further examination leads me 

 to remove it from the genus Walckenaera to Neriene^ to which 

 last the position of the eyes appears to bring it nearer than 

 to the former. 



Genus Walckenaera, B1. 



Walchenaera diceros^ Cambr. 



Walckenaera cUceros, Cambr. Spiders of Dorset, p. l-Jo, pi. iii. fig'. 6. 



On the 14th of April I met with an adult male of this 

 exceedingly minute and rare spider among grass and weeds 

 near the riverside at Hyde, near Bloxworth. I had not met 

 with it previously for more than twelve years. The example 

 now recorded differs from the type specimens only in being of 

 a deeper, richer yellow -brown colour. 



Walclcenaera penidtima, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 4.) 



Adult male, length ye of an inch. 



The caput is slightly but roundly elevated ; and in profile 

 the spider has somewhat the look of Wcdckenaera pumila, Bl., 

 the darker colouring of which species, however, as well as its 

 very characteristic palpi and palpal organs, will prevent any 

 confusion between the two. The height of the clypeus is about 

 equal to half that of the facial space ; and from just above 

 each lateral pair of eyes a strong longitudinal tapering inden- 

 tation runs back nearly to the occiput ; a few bristly hairs 

 are directed forwards from just behind and within the ocular 

 area, in the median line. 



The colour of the cephalothorax is pale yellow margined 

 by a fine black line, the elevated portion of the caput yellow- 

 brown ; the legs light yellow, strongly suffused with sooty- 

 brownish on the tibia3 and metatarsi, chiefiy of the first and 

 second pairs. The abdomen is dull yellowish brown, suffused 

 towards and on the underside with a dusky brown hue. 



