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not agglutinated together. The cocoon is connected with her spinners by 

 short lines of silk, and the young, when they quit it, mount on the body 

 of the mother. I have seen this spider, which frequents woods, pastures, 

 and commons, and is nearly allied to hycosa vorax, on the sea-shore, 

 just above high water-mark, and on the summits of Broad Crag, Helvel- 

 lyn, Snowdon, and Carnedd Llewelyn, the highest mountains in England 

 and Wales. 



4. hycosa ohscura. Saturate brunnea ; cephalo-thorace medio lateribusque 

 mandibulis maxillis pedibus palpisque obscur^ rufescentibus ; abdo- 

 mine obscur^ rufescenti-brimneo maciilato, antice fasciculis 3 minutis 

 pilorum flavescentium ; pedum pari 4to longissimo, reliquis subsequa- 

 libus. 



Length of the female ^th of an inch ; length of cephalo-thorax -^ ; breadth -^ ; 

 breadth of abdomen yj ; length of a posterior leg •^- ; length of a leg of 

 the third pair \. 



Anterior part of the cephalo-thorax compressed ; sides depressed, marked with 

 slight furrows diverging from the upper part to the margins ; in the me- 

 dial line of the posterior region there is a narrow indentation. Mandi- 

 bles powerful, conical, armed with a few teeth on the inner surface, 

 inclined towards the sternum, which is heart-shaped and thinly covered 

 with whitish hairs. Maxillae straight, enlarged and rounded at the ex- 

 tremity. Lip nearly quadrate, rather broader at the base than the 

 extremity. These parts are very dark brown, the middle and sides of 

 the cephalo-thorax, the maxillae and mandibles, having a faint tinge of 

 red. Four eyes, much smaller than the rest, form a transverse row in 

 front ; the other four, situated on the sides and anterior part of the 

 cephalo-thorax, describe a quadrilateral, the anterior eyes of which are 

 the largest of the eight. Legs and palpi dark brown, with a tinge of 

 red. Fourth pair of legs the longest ; the other three pairs equal in 

 length, or very nearly so ; the third pair extends further, and appears to 

 be longer than the first and second pairs in consequence of being articu- 

 lated to the broadest part of the cephalo-thorax. Each tarsus is ter- 



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