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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 crenated 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 anterior in a line in front, and 1 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 12 3, the fourth pair 13 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, 4£ lines long, very hairy, increasing in hairiness 

 forward ; radial and digital joints densely clothed with black hairs ; falces 

 strong, prominent, black, and shining, witb black and brown hairs about 

 their bases ; maxillae 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, and 

 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. 



