412 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW BRITISH SPIDERS. 
Bradley). Several males and females of D. anglicus have been discovered by myself 
under stones, bits of dry cow-dung, and among moss, on Bloxworth Heath ; and immature 
specimens are occasionally seen crossing bare places among the heath in sunshine. 
DRASSUS SCINTILLANS, n. sp. (Pl. 54. no. 12 a.) 
Male adult, length 2 lines. 
Cephalothorax oblong, rather prolonged at the caput, truncate at the fore margin, 
somewhat depressed longitudinally on the sides above the margins; normal furrows fairly 
marked; the fore part of caput slopes a little forward, following the even and slightly 
rounded rim of the thoracic profile; the height of the clypeus is about equal to the space 
between the outer eyes of the front row, and greater than the space between the fore 
central and hind central pairs of eyes. Colour dark-brown, tinged with yellow, and re- 
flecting metallie tints; some white sessile scaly hairs show plainly the direction of the 
thoracic grooves; and there are a few blackish bristly hairs directed forwards in the 
region of the eyes. 
Eyes eight, on black spots; small, but unequal in size, in two concentric curved rows, 
the curves directed backwards. The front row is rather shorter and a little less curved than 
the hinder row; the outer eyes of the front row are the largest of the eight; next in size | 
are the outer ones of the hinder row, then the fore centrals, and the hind centrals are the 
smallest; the space between the hind centrals is greater than that between the fore centrals, 
which is slightly less than that between each of these and the hind central on its side ; the 
space between the two outer eyes on either side of both rows is very hearly equal. 
Legs long and, except the femora, rather slender; relative length 4, 1, 2, 3; those of 
the first two pairs are of a yellowish white colour, except the femora, which are black- 
brown; the two hinder pairs are brown with a yellow tinge, the femora being the darkest; 
all are furnished with hairs, of which some (especially on the tibiæ and metatarsi of the 
first two pairs) are long, slender, and nearly erect; others, of a scaly kind, reflect green, 
golden, and violet tints; there are a few spines on the tibise and metatarsi of the two 
hind pairs, and two small spines at the extremity of the tibiæ (on the underside) of the 
first two pairs; all the tarsi are thickly clothed with short hairs on the underside, those 
of the two hinder pairs being papillæform. 
Falces long, powerful, vertical, prominent near the base in front, similar to the cepha- 
lothorax in colour, and furnished with some long, bristly, dark, prominent hairs in front. 
Maxille long and strong, broad and gibbous near the base, and depressed near the 
middle, hollow in their outer margins, round-pointed at their extremities, and slightly in- 
clined to the labium, which is of an oblong form, rounded at the apex: these parts are of a 
yellowish brown colour, furnished with bristly hairs, the labium being darkest in colour. 
Sternum large, heart-shaped, dark brown in colour, clothed with white sessile hairs. 
Abdomen narrow, oblong, constricted transversely above near the middle, of a blackish 
colour, furnished with scaly hairs reflecting metallic tints of green, golden, and violet; 
the transverse constriction is conspicuously marked with white hairs; the spinners are 
rather long and prominent, of a black colour, tipped with white hairs. 
Palpi rather long and strong, blackish-brown in colour, furnished with hairs; cubital 
