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or pinched in near their extremities, slightly rugulose in front below the point at which 
they are gibbous. 1 could not observe any teeth on the inner surface. 
Maxille long, strong, and straight, inclined towards the labium, which is blunt, short, 
and semicircular. These parts, as well as the falces, are of the same colour as the cepha- 
lothorax. 
Abdomen blackish brown, freckled with obscure spots of pale yellowish, of which four, 
larger than the rest and impressed, form a square near the middle of the upperside. 
They are probably not visible except in spirit of wine; the abdomen is furnished with a 
few coarsish hairs. : 
The specimen described was captured at Bloxworth among moss, in 1863. It is closely 
allied to N. livida, Bl.*, but differs in being one-half less in size, and in colour, besides 
differing considerably in the structure of the palpal organs. Its general appearance, 
however, is that of a dwarf pale specimen of N. livida. Another specimen, rather smaller 
than the one described, but, I think, specifically identical, was received, among others, 
from Mr. M. Young, of Paisley, by whom it was captured near that town in 1866. 
NERIENE LATEBRICOLA, n. sp. (Pl. 56. no. 32.) 
Male adult, length - of an inch. | 
Cephalothorax broad-oval and glossy; lateral margins forward scarcely at all com- 
pressed; caput arched, and sloping slightly from the summit forward and backward. 
A longitudinal row of several fine bristles, directed forward, springs from the median line 
of the caput. Colour light yellowish brown. The division of the caput from the thorax, 
the lateral furrows, and normal median depression of the hinder part are indistinct, but 
visible; the clypeus is equal in height to the length of the space between the middle 
anterior and posterior pairs of eyes. | 
Eyes eight, on very slight tubercles, and with narrow black rims; they are disposed 
in two slightly curved rows, occupying a narrow transverse oval space just above and 
below the fore margin of the caput, and are nearly equal in size; the laterals of the front 
row are perhaps slightly the largest, and those of the hinder row are about equidistant 
from each other; the middle anteriors are contiguous to each other ; those of each lateral 
pair are nearly so, being divided by a black line only, and are placed obliquely; the 
middle anteriors are dark-coloured, the rest pearly white. 
Legs not very long, moderately strong, furnished with a few hairs, and here and there 
an erect (or nearly so) fine bristle. The colour of the legs is of a deeper hue than the 
cephalothorax, and tinged with red-brown, though paler at the articulations of the joints. 
Relative length 4,1, 2, 3, the actual difference in length being but little. 
Palpi of moderate length and strength, and of the same colour as the legs ; the cubital 
and radial joints are about equal m length, the latter is the strongest, and projects from 
its upperside, near to the cubital joint, a long, strong, slightly sinuous, bluntish- 
pointed projection ; the length of this projection is nearly equal to the united lengths of 
both cubital and radial joints; it rises perpendicularly at first, and then curves forward, 
and is of a deep red-brown colour. Digital joint large and hairy, about equal in length 
* Figs. f, 9, h, no. 31, Pl. 56. are of Neriene livida (BL), 
