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ARACHNOIDEA, 



CASE Dysdera crocata {Koch), D. rubicunda, BL- 



Z^' London : 7. Sketch of ditto, enlarged. 



Nos. 



6,7. 



-6. Specimen from near 



Dysdera crocata {slightly magnified). 



Rather a large reddish spider, about 

 half an inch in length, with a whitish 

 abdomen. 



Harpactes hombergi {Scop.), Dysdera 

 Hombergi, Bl. — 8. Sketch enlarged. 



A smaller species with black thorax, 

 fawn-coloured abdomen, banded legs, 

 black and pale, plentiful. 



Found in the wooded districts of 

 Denbighshire, Carnarvonshire, Lanca- 

 shire and Yorkshire, living in crevices 

 in rocks and walls, and under lichens 

 growing on trees. 



'^°- 9- Segestria senoculata {Linn.). — 9. Sketch of, natm-al size. 



About the same size as Dysdera crocata, with a rich brown 

 thorax, and fawn-coloured legs and abdomen. 



Family DRASSID^. 



The Drassidse are rather narrow spiders of moderate size, 

 which obtain their prey by hunting. They conceal themselves in 

 silken cells, often open at each end, which they construct under 

 or among the leaves of plants, in the crevices of rocks and walls, 

 and under stones and decaying or exfoliating bark. 



No. 10. MlCARiA PULICARIA {Sund.), Drassus micans, Bl. — 10. Sketch, enlarged. 



Some few spiders, more especially from tropical countries, are 

 as brightly polished and burnished with metallic colours as beetles 

 often are. This one has a moderate share of such brilliancy on 

 the abdomen. 



