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thoracic portion rather flat; head slightly rounded above, with a few erect 
black bristles about the eyes; very hairy on lateral edges, and a slight line 
of hairs running down the indentation and increasing at the base; colour, 
rich umber-brown, with three longitudinal lines of light yellow-brown, one 
narrow down the back central, and two broader down the sides, all with 
irregularly erenated margins; lateral edges of shield below the line of a 
lighter brown. 
Eyes, 8, unequal in size, in two rows (their position slightly resembling 
those of the genus Philodromus), 4 auterior in a line in front, and 4 pos- 
terior in a curved line above, with the convexity towards face, and the 
largest at the four corners. 
Legs, strong, hairy ; colour brownish, but lighter than the shield, with 
scattered black bristles above running somewhat in lines, none below; 
metatarsus and tarsus clothed with blackish hairs; relative length of legs 
4 1 23, the fourth pair 18 lines long; sternum small, almost circular or 
deltoid-cordate, a little broader in front than behind, convex, very hairy, 
colour dark brown. 
Palpi stout and strong, 44 lines long, very hairy, increasing in hairiness 
forward ; radial and digital joints densely clothed with black hairs ; falces 
strong, prominent, black, and shining, with black and brown hairs about 
their bases; mazillz large, hairy 
Abdomen about equal length with cephalothorax, oval, slightly convex 
above, and a little higher than cephalothorax ; colour brown, same as legs 
but darker, and still darker below; very finely and densely hairy; three 
longitudinal yellow-brown stripes (in continuation of those on cephalothorax) 
running half-way towards posterior end and vanishing, and two lines of 
distant sunken black dots, 3-4 in a line, running downwards 
I think the old females change their colour, losing their light yellow- 
brown stripes, and becoming nearly wholly brown. 
No. 2, , spider from Napier. 
This species I have found here in my garden on several occasions, aud 
always in a similar situation—viz., in a hole in the earth below the surface. 
In plunging a large flower-pot (of hyacinths, &c., after flowering) into the 
earth up to its rim, and leaving it there till the following early spring, I am 
pretty sure of finding one of these spiders in a large hole or burrow under- 
ground by the side of the pot. The hole is oval, and as large as a pigeon's 
egg, about 3-4 inches under the surface, and dark, without any apparent 
outlet (though such may exist), and devoid of a vestige of web within and 
without. When taken out and exposed to the light this spider feigns death, 
and quietly allows itself to be taken up and removed. I have only found 
them solitary, and (as in the former case) have not yet met with a male. 
