56 NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS 



Specific Characters. — Cephalothorax comparatively 

 broad, its width along the line of the upper eyes '35 mm. 

 Its cuticle is quite smooth. Eyes comparatively large, but 

 their position normal of the genus : clypeus vertical, not in the 

 least protuberant. Sternum nearly smooth, without wrinkles 

 or pits. 



Abdomen rather broad. Epigyne three times as wide as 

 long; front and back margins parallel. The epigynal plate, 

 the surface of which is wrinkled all over, is cleft along the 

 median line. The margins of the two valves are raised into 

 a rim along the borders of this cleft, and are nearly in contact 

 in front but divergent in the posterior half, so as to expose a 

 paler triangular piece below. 



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1. Sclerose hema reginaldi sp. n. 2. S. hiemale Bl. 



3. S. ignobile Cb. 



[Eyes from above ; epigyne from below]. 



Cephalothorax brown with a dusky indefinite patch in the 

 middle and a dark margin; all its appendages clear yellow, 

 but there are very narrow rings of clear black at the ex- 

 tremities of coxas, trochanters, femora and tibia?, and at the 

 base of the femora. Sternum (and also the epigynal plate) 

 rich dark brown. Abdomen wholly black. 



The smooth and glossy cephalothorax and sternum, without 

 rugosity or impressions of any kind, will distinguish it from 

 either of its conveners. 



