410 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW BRITISH SPIDERS. 
Fam. DRASSIDES. 
Genus DRASSUS. 
DRASSUS ANGLICUS. (Pl. 54. no. 12.) 
Drassus lucifugus, female, Blackw. Brit. & Ir. Spiders, p. 105, pl. vi. fig. 62. 
Male adult, length 23 lines. 
Cephalothorax oval, rather broad and somewhat truncate behind, slightly compressed 
at the caput, whose fore margin is a little curved ; the hind slope is rather abrupt; the 
surface of the caput in the median line inclines slightly forward near the eyes; colour 
dark brown, narrowly margined with black, and thinly furnished with fine dark hairs; 
some fine bristles project forwards from the front of thecaput. The junction of the caput 
and thorax is not very distinct, except at its hinder extremity above, where it is marked 
by two converging black lines forming a V-shaped marking, the apex of the V directed 
backward; the angle of the V is divided longitudinally by a slight groove, to which the 
lateral grooves of the thorax converge; these lateral grooves are almost obsolete. 
Eyes eight, in two rows on the fore part of the caput; the hinder row is rather the 
longest, and curves away slightly from the front row, which is nearly straight; thus the 
space between the lateral eyes is greater than that between the fore central eyes and the 
corresponding ones of the hinder row. The hind central eyes are oval, obliquely placed, 
and nearer to each other than each is to the hind lateral on its side. 
Legs moderately long and strong ; their colour is similar to that of the cephalothorax; 
the tibiæ, tarsi, and metatarsi are rather the darkest and furnished with blackish hairs, 
some few of which are rather more bristly than the rest and longer, and rise perpen- 
dicularly from the upper surface of all the joints; these are longest on the femora of the 
fourth pair; the third and fourth pairs have their tibiæ and metatarsi furnished with 
longish spines, the tibiæ only on the underside, but on the metatarsi they form three 
irregular rings; short prominent hairs are thickly grouped on the lower surface of the 
tarsi and metatarsi, especially on the tarsi of the first and second pairs. 
Palpi of moderate length and strength; cubital joint short and nodiform; radial 
broader, but about equal in length to the cubital; it has a long, strong, straight-pointed, 
tapering projection from its outer extremity; this projection reaches to about one third 
of the length of the digital joint, which is very large and of a long oval shape; the palpi 
are similar to the legs in colour, the radial and digital joints much the darkest, and the 
projection on the former approaches a deep black-brown ; the palpal organs are well 
developed, and consist of several strong corneous lobes and processes. They are of a 
deep red-brown colour towards their hinder extremity, and nearly white about their 
centre. 
Falces moderately long and strong, perpendicular, subeonical, slightly prominent near 
the base in front, and similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 
Maxille. These reach to the extremity of the falces, they are strongly compressed 
inwardly, and curved over the labium, almost meeting at their extremities. : 
Labium elongate oval, somewhat pointed at the apex, and truncate at the junction 
with the sternum. It and the maxill are similar to the falces in colour, and furnished 
