256 THE GENUS TAPINOCYBA. 



Habitat. — This spider occurs in Britain almost always 

 among hay or straw in outhouses, barns, stackyards, etc. 

 All my specimens were found in such situations. In Switzer- 

 land, according to Lessert, it occurs in cellars. In such 

 situations it is very common in autumn. 



Note. — The specimens captured by Mr. F. P. Smith and 

 myself, and recorded by Rev. O. P. Cambridge as T. 

 parisiensis (Sim.), were all typical examples of T. subitanea 

 (Camb.). M. Simon's specimen only differs from the types 

 by a slight gibbosity of the cephalothorax, 7iot I think of 

 specific value. This gibbosity is absent in the above mentioned 

 British specimens. 



3. Tapinocyba fallens (Camb.), 1872. 



Synonymy. E?-igone pallens (Camb.), Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1872, p. 753, pi. Ixv. 

 Tapinocyba pallens (Camb.-Simon), Arach. 



France, T. v, P. 3, p. 781. 

 Tapinocyba pallens (Camb.), Proc. Dors. F. 



Club, vol. xxi., p. 23. 

 Tapinocyba pallens (Camb.), Chyz. Kulcz : 



Aran. Hung., T. ii., P. i, p. 129, and plate. 

 Tapinocyba pallens (Camb.), List of Brit. 



and Irish Spiders. 

 Male. — Length 1*4 mm. or more. 



Cephalothorax rounded and rather high. Devoid of lobe or 

 elevation. The exact shape varies a good deal. Clypeus 

 forms a very obtuse angle with the ocular area, and does not 

 project in front of chelicerse. Clypeus rather less than ocular 

 area. 



Eyes. Posterior row strongly procurved. Centrals about 

 one diameter apart, much more from the laterals. 



Postociilar sulci nearly straight ; they bend in, very slightly, 

 about the level of the posterior centrals, and then run obliquely 

 backwards and outwards. 



