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the first and second pairs being strongly suffused towards their extremities with red- 
brown; they are hairy, and the femora of the first pair have each two strong pale spines 
on their inner sides, and the femoral and tibial joints have each a few dark ones. : 
Palpi short; digital joint very large and tumid, one more moult, apparently, being 
required to bring the spider to the adult state. 
Falces strong, moderately long, and of a red-brown dies 
Maxille, labium, and sternum are all of normal structure, the latter being of a dark 
red-brown colour, the two former paler. 
Abdomen large, subtriangular, and projecting considerably over the base of the cepha- 
lothorax; the fore part is very much broader than the hinder part; it is entirely covered 
with sparse hoary-grey hairs, which tone down the pattern, but do not entirely obscure 
it; on either side of the fore part (the shoulders) it is of a rich deep red-brown colour, 
going off into à paler hue towards the underside. A little way from the outer corners 
of these red-brown patches are two broad irregularly interrupted bands of the same 
eolour, which converge towards the spinners; the sides, as well as the upperside, are of 
a pale clear red-brown, thickly freckled with yellowish-white spots. Some of these spots 
form a tolerably well defined line outside and next to the converging red-brown bands, 
as well as a large well-defined triangle within the shoulder-patches (which is succeeded 
by a broader, more obtuse, and less well defined one just above the commencement of the 
converging bands), and some oblique stripes on the sides; the underside is of a dark 
red-brown colour, with a broad, paler, curved, longitudinal stripe on either side of the 
median line. 
‘An immature male of this species, which had apparently another moult to undergo 
before becoming adult, was sent me in September 1866 by Mr. Morris Young, of Paisley, 
by whom several specimens (all immature) were captured among heather in Perthshire 
in the month of August preceding. 
It is allied to Epeira solers; but even in the immature state it presents differences of 
colour and pattern, which appear to justify its description as a distinct and new species. 
I have conferred upon it the specific name ** Youngii,” in compliment to the discoverer, to 
whom I am indebted for the opportunity of making it known to science, as well as for 
several other new and rare species. 
EPEÍRA PROMINENS. 
Singa prominens, Westr. Araneæ Suecicæ, p. 63; Westr. Enum. Ar. p. 35. 
Epeira bella, Meade, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3rd ser. vol. vii. p. 20; Blackw. Brit. & Ir. Spiders, 343, 
pl. xxv. fig. 248; Camb. Zoologist, 1862, p. 7950. 
This species (which had been described under the name Singa prominens by M. West- 
ring before its description by Mr. Meade, loc. cit. sup.) 1 have found, though not in any 
Mino. both at Drayton Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire, and at Bloxworth, among 
underwood and low herbage in woods in summer. 
P PS. gue to description of LINYPHIA CONFUSA (anteà, p. 429).—In a work by Dr. Tho — 
rell, ‘Remarks on Synonyms of European Spiders," published at Upsala in 1870, a d 
