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



Order Araneidea. 



Fam. Drassidse. 

 Genus Clubiona, Latr. 



Cluhiona ccerulescens, L. Koch. 



Clubiona ctsnilescens, L. Kocli, Die Araclm.-Fam. der Drassiden, p. 331, 



Taf. xiii. figs. 213-215 ; Cambridge, Spiders of Dorset, p. 29. 

 Cluhmia vohita, Cambr. Linn. See. Journ. xi. p. 553, pi. xiv. fig. 3. 



Two adult males of this fine and striking species were 

 found by myself on the 6th of September, 1881, on low plants 

 among short underwood near Bloxworth. This is the first 

 recorded occurrence of the male in Britain, the only examples 

 previously recorded (one at Bloxworth and one near Aber- 

 deen) being females. 



Fam. Dictynidse. 

 Genus novum Amphissa (nom. propr.). 



Cephalothorax rather elongate-oval, somewhat broadly 

 truncated behind ; upper convexity very moderate ; profile- 

 line even and slightly curved ; lateral constriction at caput 

 as well as the normal indentations very slight. Clypeus low. 

 Eyes not very large, subequal, closely grouped together in 

 two parallel, transverse contiguous rows, of which the poste- 

 rior is nearly straight. The interval between the eyes of the 

 hind central pair (which are smaller than the hind laterals, 

 and of a somewhat misshapen form) exceeds a diameter ; and 

 each is contiguous to the hind lateral eye on its side. The 

 eyes of the anterior row are contiguous to each oiher. 



Legs moderate in length and strength (4, 1, 2, 3), furnished 

 with hairs and a very few spines. In the only example 

 known (which is a male) two of these spines are short, black, 

 and placed in a longitudinal line beneath the metatarsi of the 

 first pair, and another, long, rather strong, prominent, and 

 curved, beneath the tibia; of the third pair. Each tarsus ends 

 with three curved claws, the inferior one being very small. 



Falces moderately long, not very strong, vertical, and 

 slightly divergent at their extremities. 



MaxiJlcB moderate in length, strong, inclined towards the 

 labium, and obliquely truncated at their extremity on the 

 inner sides. 



Labium not very large, its apex drawn out into a point 

 reaching to the inner extremity of the maxillje. 



Sternum heart-shaped. 



