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Fakes large and strong and very dissimilar in the two sexes. 

 In the male the anterior border bears no teeth, the 

 posterior border five or six. In the female each border 

 bears five. Palpi of female not tumid. Tibise i. bear a 

 spine on their anterior borders near the apex ... Microneta 



In all the above genera the first tibia and patella together 

 are much longer than the first metatarsus. Femoral spines 

 are absent, and tibia iv. always bears two spines above. 



Genus I. SYEDRA Simon. 



(Arach. de France, v., p. 453, 1881.) 



Metatarsi i. and ii. each bear a stiff spine above. These 

 are absent on metatarsi iii. and iv. 



Long sensory setae are present on the first three pairs of 

 metatarsi between the middle and the base of each and on the 

 upper surface. Such are absent on the last pair. 



Falces slightly more divergent in the male than the female. 

 The anterior border of the fang groove bears three long teeth. 

 The posterior border also bears three, which are very small 

 and very close together. 



The central posterior eyes are much larger than the laterals 

 of the same row. They are distinctly nearer to these than 

 they are to each other. 



Syedra pholcommoides Camb. 



Linyphia pholcommoides Camb. Spids. Dorset, p. 212, 



1879. 

 Syedra ophthalmica Sim. Arach. de France, v., p. 455, 



1881. 

 Syedra gracilis Menge-Kulcz. Aran. Hung., ii., pp. 84, 85. 

 Sintula pholcommoides Camb. List of British and Irish 



Spiders, 1900. 

 Syedra pholcommoides Camb. Proc. Dors. F. Club, xxvi., 



1905, p. 48. 



(Plate VIII., figs. 1, ia, ib, ic, id.) 

 The posterior row of eyes is markedly curved, the convexity 



