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The clypeus is a little prominent at its lower margin, and its height is about half that 
of the facial space. 
The legs are not very long, but moderately strong; their relative length i is 1, 4, 2, 3; 
those of the first, fourth, and second pairs are but very little different in length; they 
are furnished with hairs and slender bristles ; each tarsus terminates with three curved 
claws, the two superior ones being very slender, and the inferior one almost imper- 
ceptible. 
~ The palpi are similar in colour and armature to the legs; they are moderately long : 
the humeral and cubital joints are slender, and the latter very short; the radial joint is 
longer and much stronger than the cubital, and is equally produced both before and 
behind; it is bluntish-pointed at the fore extremity on the upperside , and its outer 
margin is strongly emarginate; the hinder extremity is of a blunt form; the digital joint 
is large, oblong-oval in form, and equals (if it does not exceed) the humeral joint in 
length. 
The palpal organs axe well developed, not very complex, but furnished with one or two 
characteristic corneous processes, for which see Plate XLVI. fig. 12c. The remaining 
characters of this spider are sufficiently ordinary and need no special detail. 
A single adult male was contained in a collection of spiders forwarded to me in October 
1872, by Mr. J. W. H. Traill of Aberdeen, by whom it was found near Dunkeld. 
NERIENE PAVITANS, sp. n. (Pl. XLVI. fig. 13.) 
Female adult, length 13 line. 
This spider is nearly allied to Veriene pudens and N. clara (infra, p. 544); in 
colour it most nearly resembles the latter, being, however, rather less bright. 
The cephalothorax, when looked at in profile, has but a very slight hollow behind the 
occiput; and there are no punctures or rugulosity, as in N. clara, either on the thorax 
or sternum. 
The falces are rather long and divergent, and are also longer in proportion to the 
length of the maxillæ than in the two species mentioned ; this is, perhaps, more apparent 
than real, owing to the greater curvature and inclination of the maxillæ towards the 
labium. The oval formed by the eyes is broader (from back to front) than in either of 
those two species; but the relative position and size of the eyes is very nearly the same 
The height of the clypeus equals half that of the facial space. 
The abdomen is of a rather elongate oval form; and (looked at in profile) the hinder ex- 
tremity is rather higher and more obtuse than the fore part, the hind slope being abrupt. 
The legs are moderately long and strong; their relative length is 4, 1, 2, 3; they are 
furnished with hairs and a few very fine erect bristles; in the size of the fore tibiz this 
species is like W. clara. 
The form of the genital aperture differs notably from both N. clara and N. pudens. 
For this difference reference must be made to the figure (fig. 13 e, Pl. XLVI.), which will 
alone give a clear idea of it. 
A single example was received from Mr. J. Hardy, by whom it was a bine in Oc- 
tober 1871, on the Cheviot Hills. 
