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apophysis as long as the joint itself, and rather dilated at its 
extremity, very nearly resembling in this respect that of 
Drassus troglodytes, C. Koch. The digital joint is large, of 
an oval form, and longer than the radial and cubital joints 
together. The palpal organs are well developed, of a tumid- 
oval form behind, marked with two parallel fine brown circum- 
ferent lines; and there are some rather prominent processes 
towards their fore extremity. 
This spider is nearly allied to Drassus minusculus, LL. Koch 
(which appears to be rather common in France) ; but, I think, 
on a careful comparison of the two species, it is quite dis- 
tinct. The differential characters are slight ; but among them 
may be mentioned the closer proximity to each other of the eyes 
of the hind central pair, and a slight difference in the form of 
the genital aperture of the female. The only examples I have 
seen of D. minusculus, L. K., are also considerably smaller 
than those of D. delinquens. 
Drassus pubescens. 
Drassus pubescens, Thor. Recensio Critica Aran. Suec. p. 100, and Syn. 
Europ. Spid. p. 208; L. Koch, Die Arachn.-Fam. der Drassid. 
p. 128, tab. v. figs. 77-79; O, P. Cambridge, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
XXVill. p. 439. 
A adult male of this rare and distinct spider was found, under 
the dry crust formed in small hollows on Bloxworth Heath, 
by the drying up of the muddy water contained in them, on 
the 16th of June, 1877. This is only the second example of 
the species yet found in England; and it enables me to fix the 
time of its occurrence, which I was unable to do in regard to 
the former example recorded in Linn. Trans. (. c. supra). 
Drassus bulbifer. 
sie bulbifer, Cambr. Proc. Zool. Soc. June 1874, p. 386, pl. li. 
g. 18. 
An adult male of this spider was found at Lulworth, in 
Dorsetshire, in June 1877, and kindly sent to me by Mr. C. 
W. Dale, of Glanviile’s Wootton. The type of the species, 
described J. c. supra, was received among a number of spiders 
of many kinds collected by the late Mr. Richard Beck, of 
Cornhill, London. Being, at the time when these were sent 
to me, under the impression that some of them were obtained 
on the continent of Europe, I concluded that the example of 
D. bulbifer was a continental one. I have since had occasion 
to doubt this, and I feel convinced now that they were all 
English specimens. Some were, I know, found near London 
and others at Hastings; it is probable that the example 
