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inesiallj, tlie first not markedly longer than the rest ; the first four straight, with 

 parallel anterior and posterior borders; the fifth with its posterior border slightly 

 recurved, the sixth with both anterior and posterior borders recurved or concave 

 backwards. Palpi long and slender, excluding the coxa, longer than the carapace. 

 First leg longer and stouter than the palpi, a little longer than the opisthosonia, 

 and about one and a half times the length of the carapace, which is about equal to 

 its trochanter, femur, jiatella, and half the tibia ; the protarsus of the first leg 

 apparently shorter than the tarsus. Fourth leg a little longer than the first, with 

 its protarsus longer than its tarsus. 



Mcnfiurements in mm. — Total leugth 4"8 ; length of carapace 2 ; of opisthosoma 

 2-8, width of latter about 2*5 ; length of palpus about 2*5; of first leg about 3, of 

 fourth a little over 3. 



Coseley, near Dudley. 



Type, above described, in the Collection of Mr. "Walter Egginton (No. 7). 



In addition to the type there are many specimens in the Collections of Mr. 

 Egginton, Mr. H. Johnson, and Mr. Madeley. They are all in clay ironstone 

 nodules from the Dudley Coal Measures. 



The largest specimens I have seen reach a length of about G mm. 



Famihj EoPHRYNiDiE, Karsch. 



Eoplirynidiv, Karscb, Scudder, Pocock, Fritsch. 

 Eophnjnidie + Kreisclieriidiv, Haase. 



Carapace with its median area elevated and marked with a deep, narrow longi- 

 tudinal groove in its posterior half, and with one or two transverse sulci as well ; 

 furnished either anteriorly or mesially with an ocular tubercle bearing a pair of 

 eyes. Behind the elevated portion there is a short depressed transverse portion 

 abutting against the opisthosoma, and continuous laterally with the widely and 

 horizontally extended lateral portion of the carapace, which is impressed with 

 two sulci, the anterior of these being continuous with the sulcus of the median area 

 that defines posteriorly the oculiferous area of the median portion. In front of the 

 latter there is a longer or shorter apically narrow projecting portion, which 

 apparently overhangs the chelicerje. In typical members of this family {Eojtlirymis, 

 Kreisclieria) there appear to be at least two tergal plates in the opisthosoma in 

 front of the seventh tergal plate from the end on the dorsal side, and the pleural 

 laminaB, although large on all the seven normal and invariable terga, appear to be 

 undivided. The anterior three sternal plates, at least in Eophrymis, are short, the 

 first being triangular and wedged between the coxse of the appendages of the last 

 pair, the size and disposition of these plates being very similar to those of 



