406 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW BRITISH SPIDERS. 
the normal spade-shaped marking. The cephalothorax has on its upperside (mostly in 
front) some short strong hairs, rather enlarged, or clubbed, at their extremities, though 
not so strongly clavate as those of 7. claveatus. The external eyes of the foremost row 
are far the largest of the eight. 
Legs moderately long and strong; the first two pairs are armed with strong spines of 
different lengths; they are of a dull brownish-yellow colour; the femora brown-black, 
those of the two first pairs being the darkest. | 
Palpi not very long, of a yellow-brown colour, suffused with blackish, the radial 
and digital joints being the darkest; the former of these is the shorter, but stouter, 
of the two, and has two projections at its anterior extremity—one on the outer side, 
broad, strong, bluff, and rounded at its extremity, the other beneath (on the under- 
side) less strong, curved, and prominent. The palpal organs are well developed, not 
complex, and have a strong pointed filiform spine curved round their outer sides in a 
circular form. 
Abdomen short, oval in form, rather narrower before (where it is truncate) than behind ; 
its colour on the upperside is dark yellow-brown, obseurely mottled with a deeper hue; 
it has the five normal circular depressed spots, also the longitudinal central fusiform 
band on its anterior half more or less clearly defined by a deep brownish-black line; and 
there are faint indications of some whitish-yellow transverse curved bars, or lines, be- 
tween the hinder extremity of this band and the spinners. The margins and sides of the 
abdomen are marked and spotted with white; and it has a few short slightly elavate hairs 
scattered over its upper surface; the underside is of a dull brownish-yellow colour. 
Three adult males of this species were taken by myself on the new stone-work of the 
chancel of Bloxworth Church (while being rebuilt) about the middle of September, 1869. 
THOMISUS CAMBRIDGII. (Pl. 54. no. 9, a, e, f, g.) 
Thomisus Cambridgii, Bl. Brit. and Ir. Spiders, part i. p. 81, pl. iv. fig. 47 (9). 
Male adult, length 3 lines, breadth of cephalothorax behind 13 line. : 
Cephalothorax broad and round in the thoracic region, compressed towards the caput, 
which is short, and has the cephalie suture but slightly defined. In general respects the 
cephalothorax is similar to those of the typical Thomisi; it slopes gradually from the 
highest point of the thorax (where the hind slope ends) to the eyes. It is glossy, and its 
colour is red-brown, irregularly marked and streaked on the sides with yellow ; there 
are two patches of deeper red-brown, one on either side of the commencement of the 
hind slope, and a broad longitudinal band of yellow down the centre; this band includes 
the four central eyes and the characteristic Thomisal spade-shaped marking, which is 
well defined and Sharp-pointed behind, where its margins are not straight, but hollow, 
swelling out towards the middle, and gathering in again a little near the eyes. This 
marking is of a red-brown colour, defined on the sides by yellow lines, and enlarged 
behind longitudinally by a broad border of yellowish-white, preserving the same form 
as the spade-marking itself; this marking is divided longitudinally by a line which is 
yellow behind, and becomes deep red-brown and bifid forwards, and ends between the - à 
two central posterior eyes. Length of the clypeus not much more than half the 
