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thorax in two transverse rows ; the four intermediate ones describe a 

 trapezoid, the two anterior ones, which form its shortest side, and are 

 situated high above the frontal margin, being the smallest, and the 

 two posterior ones the largest of the eight ; the eyes of each lateral 

 pair are seated obliquely on a small tubercle, and are near to each 

 other but not in contact. The legs are long, slender, provided with 

 hairs, and have a yellowish-white hue ; the first pair is the longest, 

 then the second, and the third is the shortest ; each tarsus is termi- 

 nated by three small claws ; the two superior ones are curved and 

 minutely pectinated, and the inferior one is inflected near its base. 

 The palpi resemble the legs in colour, and have a minute, curved 

 claw at their extremity. The abdomen is oviform, glossy, convex 

 above, and projects over the base of the cephalothorax ; on the upper 

 part there is a broad leaf-like, soot-coloured mark, that tajjcrs to the 

 spinners, and has sinuous lateral margins ; white spots, more or less 

 confluent, form short, oblique rows on each side of the median line, 

 and in some instances, by their junction, constitute angles whose 

 vertices are directed forwards; the sides are of a pale soot-coloiu- 

 spotted with white, their lower region, and the under part being soot- 

 coloured, but paler than the margins of the leaf-like mark ; some 

 minute white spots occur on the under part, particularly near to the 

 spinners. 



As the specimen from which the description was made was im- 

 mature, and had evidently undergone a recent change of integu- 

 ment, its colours will, in all probability, be paler than those of an 

 adult. 



Genus Nektene, BlacJcw. 



Nekitjne rubella, Blackw. Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 



281, pi. 19. f. 194. 

 Micryphantes isabellinus, Koch, Arachn. Band viii. p. 109, t. 282. 



f. 676-678. 



Family EPEIEID^. 

 Genus Ei'eika, Walck. 



Epeira solers, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. torn. ii. p. 41 ; 



Blackw. Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 336, pi. 24. f. 243. 

 Epeira agalena, Hahn, Araclm. Band ii. p. 29, t. 4T . f. 115. 

 Atea sclopetaria, Koch, Uebers. des Arach. Syst. Ilehi. ji. 4; Koch, 



Arachn. Band xi. p. 134, t. 390. f. 934, 935. 



Epeira calophylla, PFa?cA;. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. torn. ii. p. 70; 

 Latr. Gen. Crust, et Insect, tom. i. p. 108; Sund. Vet. Akad. Handl. 



