Arachnida. 8567 



brown (and of which the centre one is much the widest) occupy 

 the under side, and converge towards the spinners, where they 

 are connected by a transverse line of the same hue, composed 

 of short hairs ; the central band is interrupted at the site of the 

 sexual aperture, and in the part of it next the sternum there are 

 two pale spots. The sexual organs are of a horse-shoe shape, 

 slightly prominent and edged with red-brown. 



This spider, which is closely allied to the genus Thomisus, was 

 captured by myself on a gate-post at Bloxworth, Dorset, in June, 

 1862. It is unlike any other spider of this family that I have met 

 with, and, from being almost wholly clothed with long black bristly 

 hairs, presents a very striking appearance. 



Family Drassid.e. *t 

 Clubiona reclusa. 



Male, adult. Length 1-fifth of an inch. Length of cephalothorax 

 1-tenth. Relative length of legs, 4, 1, 3, 2. 



Cephalothorax slopes gradually into a slightly curved outline from 

 the centre to the eyes, where it is slightly compressed on the 

 sides. It has a slight longitudinal indentation in the medial 

 line of the hinder part. Colour yellowish, tinged with red. The 

 margins are red, and sundry veinings of a reddish brown run 

 from the eyes and lateral margins to a point in the centre. It 

 is clothed with short yellowish hairs, which considerably ob- 

 scure the veinings, except when seen in spirits of wine. 



Eyes eight, in two curved rows, the curves directed backwards. 

 The foremost row is nearly straight, and is just above the frontal 

 margin ; the eyes of this row are about equidistant from each 

 other ; the centre ones are the darkest coloured, and slightly the 

 largest of the eight. The centre ones of the hinder row are 

 further from each other than each is from the end one on its 

 side ; the eyes of this row are about equal in size, and, with the 

 end ones of the front row, are edged with deep bistre-brown, 

 and in two out of three specimens that have come under my 

 notice the eyes themselves were tinged with the same colour : 

 in one specimen the brown colour almost approached to black. 

 The lateral pairs of eyes are not contiguous, being separated 

 rather further from each other in an oblique direction than the 

 one forming the end eye of the front row is from the next to it 

 in that row. 



