546 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 
The maxille and labium are of the usual form, and similar to the cephalothorax and | 
falces in colour. : 
The abdomen is short-oval, nearly black, showing (when in spirits of wine) some fine 
pale lines and markings. 
The female resembles the male in colour and general characters. The genital aperture 
is characteristic. 
From many other small British species of Veriene and Linyphia which bear close 
general resemblance to the present it may be at once distinguished by the form of the 
radial joint of the palpus. An adult example of each sex was contained in the collection 
sent me by Mr. J. Hardy, and was found by him on the Cheviot Hills in October 1871. 
NERIENE UNCATA, sp. n. (Pl. XLVI. fig. 17.) 
Male adult, length rather more than 13 line. 
The cephalothorax (looked at from above and behind) is of an oblong form, broadest 
and rounded at its hinder part, the caput being somewhat elongated, and broadly 
truncated at the fore part, as well as raised a little way behind the ocular area. The 
raised portion is furnished with longish bristly erect hairs. Its colour is a deep rich 
yellow-brown, deepest at the fore part; and the normal grooves are indicated by darker 
lines. : 
The eyes occupy the whole width of the fore margin of the caput. They are disposed 
in the usual four pairs or two transverse rows : those of the hind central pair are rather 
more than an eye's diameter separate from each other; they are situated on the flattish 
area in front of the raised portion of the caput; and their visual axis appears to be per- 
pendicular to this area. Those of the fore central and lateral pairs are just below and at 
the extreme corners of this area. The former are seated immediately above a large 
roundish black spot; they are the smallest of the eight, and are near together but not 
contiguous to each other; and those of the latter are obliquely placed, and contiguous. 
The interval between the eyes of the hind central pair is much less than that between 
each and the lateral of the same row on its side; that between each of the fore centrals 
and the fore lateral next to it is about equal to the length of the line formed by the 
former. 
The height of the clypeus equals one half of the facial space; its direction is vertical; 
and it has no impression. 
The legs are tolerably strong and rather long; their relative length appeared to be 
4, 1, 2, 3; but the differenee between those of the first and fourth pairs is slight. They 
are of a dull orange-yellow colour, and are furnished with hairs and bristles, and a 
few prominent slender black spines or tapering spine-like bristles on the femoral and 
tibial joints; each tarsus terminates with three curved claws. 
The palpi are moderate in length, and (except the digital joints) similar to the legs in 
colour; the cubital joint is short and rather bent; the radial is also short, but much stronger 
than the cubital, and has its fore extremity produced into a strong prominent tapering- 
