542 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 
garden of Bloxworth Rectory in May 1871. The white spots were conspicuous on the 
upperside of the abdomen in this example also. : | 
NERIENE EXCISA. 
Neriene excisa, Cambr. Linn. Trans. xxvii. p. 440, pl. 56. no. 29. 
Adult males of this well-characterized species were found in Mr. J. Hardy's Cheviot- 
Hills collection (made in October 1871). 
NERIENE TIBIALIS. 
Neriene tibialis, Blackw. Spid. Gt. Brit. & Ir. p. 266. 
Dicymbium clavipes, Menge, Preuss. Spinn. p. 193, pl. 37. fig. 91. 
An adult male of this spider was contained in Mr. Hardy's Cheviot-Hills collection. 
The tumid tibial joints of the first pair of legs distinguish it at once from Neriene 
nigra, Bl., to which, in other respects, it bears very close resemblance. N. nigra, Bl., 
is identical with Dicymbium gracilipes, Menge, and Erigone scabristernis, West. (conf. 
Thor. Syn. Eur. Spid. p. 104). 
NERIENE PROMISCUA. 
Neriene promiscua, Cambr. Linn. Trans. xxviii. p. 449, pl. 34. no. 25. 
An adult male of this spider was found by myself near Brighton in June 1871; and 
another was contained in the Cheviot-Hills collection made by Mr. J. Hardy in Oc- 
tober 1871. 
NERIENE PASCALIS, sp. n. (Pl. XLVI. fig. 12.) 
Male adult, length 1 line. 
The fore part of this spider is of a dull greenish yellow-brown colour, the legs being the 
palest; the abdomen is glossy, sparingly furnished with hairs, and of a sooty black. 
The form of the cephalothorax somewhat resembles that of Neriene longipalpis and its 
near allies, the caput being elevated above the thorax, and the occiput being rather 
higher than the ocular area; a single row of bristly hairs divides the caput longitudinally, 
running from the eyes to the hinder part. 
The eyes are nearly of equal size, and in the usual position: those of the hind central 
pair are separated from each other by an eye's diameter, and are rather nearer together 
than each is to the hind lateral on its side, each being also but a little more than it's own 
diameter's distance from the fore central opposite to it; they are also but very little 
eminent above the surrounding surface; those of each lateral pair are placed obliquely 
and contiguously on a slight tubercle; the fore centrals are not very easy to be seen, 
although as large as the hind centrals—which is unusual, the eyes of the fore central pair 
being in all other instances (that I can call to mind at this moment) the smallest of the 
eight, and generally much smaller than those of the hind central pair; the fore centrals 
are very nearly contiguous to each other, and each is about its own diameter's distance 
from the fore lateral on its side. 
