376 BET. O. p. CAMBRID&E ON CEYLON SPIDERS. 



Fam. AGELENIDES. 

 Genua Tegenaeia. 



Tegenaria civilis, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Ins. ^^<. torn. ii. p. 7- 

 1. 16, fig. 1 ; Koch. Die Arach. Bd.. viii. p. 37, tab. 264. figs. 618, 

 6l9;Sund. 



Agelena civilis, Vet. Akad. Handl. 1831, p. 127 ; Lister, Hist. Animal. 

 Angl.de Aran. Titulus 17, p. 59, tab. 1. fig. 17- 



Tegenaria civilisj Blackw. Brit, and Irish Spiders, p. 166, pi. 12. fig. 107. 



Adults of both sexes of this spider, indistinguishable from 

 European (Continental) and British specimens, were contained 

 in Mr. Nietner's collection. T. civilis seems to be a widely dis- 

 persed spider ; it is found all over Europe, and Mr. Blackwall 

 received it from Canada in a collection of spiders made in that 

 country by Prof Potter (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Jan. and Eeb. 

 1846). I have myself captured it in Egypt, Syria, and Palestine. 

 In England it is one of our most abundant house-spiders, occur- 

 ring very commonly in unused rooms, among old papers, and in 

 empty boxes that have lain by for some time. Very possibly 

 individuals may have been transmitted in packages of goods from 

 one part of the world to another, which would account in some 

 measure for its wide range. 

 Tegenaria torva, n. sp. PI. XI. figs. 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 16, 17, 



18, 19, 20. 

 S adult, length 6 lines. 



Cephalothorax broad, round oval behind, a little elongate and com- 

 pressed laterally before ; moderately convex above ; normal furrows 

 and indentations tolerably defined, one of these, n<nning backwards 

 longitudinally from the point of junction of caput and thorax, is nar- 

 row and deep : colour yellow brown, with a darker brown broad lon- 

 gitudinal band including and running back from the eyes to the hinder 

 extremity ; the sides of cephalothorax, as well as some pale longitu- 

 dinal streaks on the fore part of the dark central band, are furnislied 

 with brightish yellow hairs. Clypeus impressed, slightly exceeding 

 in height the space between the fore and hind central pairs of eyes, 

 and furnished with coarsish pale hairs ; a few coarse black hairs or 

 bristles are also directed forwards from between and behind the 

 €yes. 

 Eyes eight, not very unequal in size, in two transverse rows on the 

 fore part of the caput ; the hinder row is longest and straight, the 

 front row slightly curved (the curve directed forwards) ; the eyes of 

 the hinder row are equal in size and equidistant from each other ; 

 those of the fore central pair are the smallest of the eight, and further 



