Arachnida. 8571 



with darker brown. Plates of the spiracles paler. On the upper 

 side towards the cephalothorax are several longish, obscure, 

 pale yellow-brown spots, forming somewhat of an oblong figure ; 

 these are followed towards the spinners by some shortish trans- 

 verse angular lines of the same colour (formed by short pale 

 yellowish hairs), the angles directed forwards. 



The specimen above described was not quite adult, but is distinct 

 from any species I have seen, and is, I believe, a species hitherto un- 

 described. It may easily be distinguished by its general plain yellow- 

 brown colour, and the obscurity of the pattern on the abdomen. It 

 was captured by myself at Bloxworth, in 1861. 



Family Agelenid^e. 

 Agelena boopis. 



Female, immature. Length 1-fifteenth of an inch. Length of 

 cephalothorax 1 -thirty- second. 



Cephalothorax compressed on the sides forwards, and slightly pro- 

 minent at the eyes. Colour dull yellow, suffused with sooty 

 brown. The space occupied by the eyes is black. A sharply 

 angulated yellow patch, with the angle directed backwards, 

 commences close behind each of the two central eyes of the 

 hinder row ; these patches are separated from each other by a 

 fine blackish longitudinal line. There is a slight rise in the 

 cephalothorax, followed by a transverse dip, behind which, on 

 each side, is an oblique yellow line. 



Eyes in two rows, on the, almost vertical, front of the cephalothorax, 

 and very unequal in size. The front or lower row is nearly 

 straight ; the upper one is the longest, and very much curved, 

 the curve directed backwards. The eyes of the lower row are 

 equidistant from each other, the end ones being rather smaller 

 than the centre ones, and the smallest of the eight. The cen- 

 tral eyes of the upper row are very disproportionately large, 

 protruding and wide apart, their outer rims extending nearly to 

 the entire length of the lower row. The outer eyes of the upper 

 row are about the same size as the centre eyes of the lower row ; 

 and the space between the centre ones of the upper row is 

 greater than that between each of them and the end one on its 

 side. 

 Legs short, moderately stout. Colour dull straw-yellow, with a 



