neio and obscure British Spiders. 387 



group ivhich seems to lie somewhere between Leptypliantes, 

 Bathypliantes, (aid Porhomma. 



Ttvo specimens tvere found amongst other species collected in 

 Dorset in 1888. It is most 2)robable that these were taken in 

 Hyde Boff^ near Wareham^ in May or June. 



(xronp LOPHOCARENINI. 



Lophocarenum Mengei^ Sim. 

 (PI. XX. fig. 1, rt, b, c, d.) 



Length of male | line. 



Both sexes. — Cephalothorax oval, narrowed in front, dark 

 red-brown or black, margins slightly impunctate, striaj 

 distinct. 



Posterior row of eyes curved, convexity backwards. Eyes 

 equal. Anterior row curved, convexity backwards ; centrals 

 much smaller. 



Clypeus slightly inclined, as higli as the ocular area. 



Falces as long as the cly])eus, convex at base, vertical ; 

 upper margin of fang-groove bearing three sharp teeth, two 

 long, one short. 



Sternum slightly longer than broad, dark black-brown, 

 slightly impunctate, terminating behind between the posterior 

 coxge in a broad squarely truncate piece. 



Legs short, yellow-brown, clothed with fine hairs. Tibige 

 alone exhibiting a spine on upperside, these very small, 

 barely visible. Tarsal claws three, superiors toothed. 

 Tarsi iii. and iv. clothed beneath with numerous barbed 

 hairs. 



Abdomen dull olive-brown or black, glabrous, strongly and 

 closely impunctate in both sexes. 



Male with thick coriaceous covering or scutum over the 

 whole dorsal area. 



Female without scutum ; anterior dorsal area exhibiting 

 four small dull red rounded pits. Ventral surface paler, 

 smooth, set with short hairs; pygidium exhibiting transverse 

 wrinkles. 



Male sex. — Cephalothorax exhibiting a high, vertical, 

 globular, cephalic lobe (not always equally developed in every 

 speciuien), bearing on its anterior apex the posterior central 

 pair of eyes ; set with short erect pale hairs ; exhibiting at 

 its base on either side, immediately behind the lateral pair of 

 eyes, a large, deep, oval excavation. Central region convex, 

 dropping abruptly to the pedicle (PI. XX. fig. 1, a). 



