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always found in a tubular nest, but frequently in holes, crevices of banks, 
walls, mounds of rubbish and stones, as well as under logs of wood, and 
beneath loose bark, sometimes also in dark out-buildings, and often wander- 
ing about at night. 
The following is a detailed description of one of the spiders last received 
from Captain Hutton, and belonging to one (though, from the eause men- 
tioned in a note to p. 283, it is uncertain to which) of the nests figured by Mr. 
Gillies. I have selected it out of the eight or nine examples received as a 
iype of the species, from its medium size, as well as because in its colours 
and markings it is intermediate between the darkest and most confluently 
marked, and the lightest and least confluent specimens. To this description 
I have also added one of the male spider, which (as before observed) I 
consider to be that sex of the species to which the female spider described 
belongs ; and I beg to return my best thanks both to Mr. Gillies and Capt. 
Hutton for their kindness in sending me the materials for these observations 
and descriptions. 
[P.S.—A point is mentioned in Mr. Gillies’s paper (pp. 251-253) upon 
which I have, as yet, made no remark, chiefly because it is at present to 
me, as it is also to him, quite inexplicable—I allude to the nests which have 
been found covered and hermetically sealed up on the outside with clay or 
soil, and yet with the spider alive inside. Subsequent observations made 
by Mr. Gillies confirm the fact of this extraordinary sealing-up, which he 
attributes to the male spider. But for Mr. Gillies having suspected and 
searched in vain for a second tube with another external opening, I should 
- have suggested this as a solution of the mystery.] 
Family Turnarnosripzs. 
Genus Nemesia, Latr. 
Nemesia gilliesii, sp. nov. 
Adult Female.—Length, from 7 to 16 lines, exclusive of the falces. The 
length of the example described below is intermediate between these two 
extremes—12 lines. The cephalo-thorax is of an oblong oval form, truncated 
at each end, the fore extremity being rather broader than the hinder one. 
The thoracic portion is rather depressed, but the caput is elevated and 
tolerably well rounded above. The normal grooves and indentations are 
strong, especially the one which marks the junction of the caput and thorax. 
The ocular area is of a transverse oval form, slightly elevated and rounded ; 
there are a few erect black bristles on this part, a single line of the same 
along the middle of the caput, and some stronger curved ones on the clypeus 
immediately in front of the ocular area; one in particular being much longer 
than the rest, more tapering, and somewhat sinuous. 
The colour of the cephalo-thorax is dark yellow-brown, thickly clothed 
