ALLENDALE SPIDERS II3 



Legs yellowish, robust ; two dorsal spines on the tibia ; 

 those on the hind legs stronger and darker coloured than 

 the rest. Tarsus of the fore legs equal in length to the 

 metatarsus; tarsus of the hind legs two-thirds of the length 

 of the metatarsus. Order of the legs in point of length — 

 4, I, 2, 3. 



Palpus of the same colour as the legs, but tarsus and tibia 

 very dark brown; femur curved, widest at the forward ex- 

 tremity; patella short, as wide as long; tibia about the same 

 length, but produced above into a stout blunt process gently 

 curving over the base of the tarsus. Tarsal bulb dark coloured, 

 not very complex in structure ; paracymbium inconspicuous. 

 The strong terminal spine of excisa is represented by a 

 spatulate process of a rich vinous brown colour directed back- 

 wards along the under side of the bulb and reaching the 

 middle. 



Abdomen olive green, thickly clothed with long whitish 

 hairs. 



Female : 



Cephalothorax 1*9 mm. long. No depression of the frons, 

 the occiput being very high but its curve unbroken. Eyes as 

 in the male. 



Falces much thicker at the base than in the male. 



Abdomen large, broad, and rather flattened; colour and 

 clothing as in the male. 



Epigyne a large yellowish plate, tranversely wrinkled in the 

 middle; vulva showing as two dark oval depressions set 

 obliquely, converging backwards and reaching the hinder 

 margin, where they are separated by a space equal to their 

 lesser diameter. 



Among moss in a pinewood on Whitfield Fell at about 

 1,400 feet, February, 1908. One male; females plentiful. 



This species is a little larger than its two congeners. The 

 male can be readily distinguished by the conformation of the 



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