254 THE GENUS TAPINOCYBA. 



Abdomen oval ; it never seems to become globular. 



Distribution. — England: Dorset, Lancashire, Yorkshire, 

 and Northumberland. France : North and Central. Germany. 



Habitat. — Not rare among moss, and occasionally dead 

 leaves. It is adult in the autumn, and living through the 

 winter it re-appears in spring. 



2. Tapinocyba subitanea (Camb.), 1875. 



Synonymy. WalckenaBra subitanea (Camb.), Spid. Dors., 



p. 144, also Proc. Dors. F. Club, vol. iv., p. 152. 

 Tapinocyba subitanea (Camb.-Sim.), Arach. 



France, T. 5, P. 3, p. 783. 

 Tapinocyba parisiensis (Sim.), loc. cit., p. 784. 

 Tapinocyba subitanea (Camb.), Proc. Dors. 

 F. Club, vol. vi., p. 9, vol. xv., p. iii, 

 also List of Brit, and Irish Spiders. 



Male. — Average length 1*15 mm., shorter than T. praecox 

 (Camb.), but a trifle broader, and more robust. 



Cephalothorax devoid of lobe or eminence. Usually 

 rounded, and similar in shape to that of T. praecox, except 

 that it is a little higher. The clypeus too is rather higher in 

 proportion to the ocular area. In the specimen M. Simon 

 described as T. parisiensis (Simon), the caput is a little higher 

 behind the eyes, and there is a slight dip at the thoracic 

 juncture. All the Tapinocybae, however, are so subject to 

 variation in the exact shape of the cephalothorax that I cannot 

 accept this slight aberration as being of specific value. 



Eyes large and round. Posterior row of eyes very slightly 

 procurved, in fact almost straight. The centrals are less than 

 a diameter apart, and not more than a diameter from the 

 laterals. When the eyes are somewhat shrunken the inter- 

 spaces appear larger, and the eyes more or less oval in shape. 

 This is the case in M. Simon's specimen above mentioned, 

 and it is often the case in English specimens from various 

 localities. 



