Arachnida. * 8573 



from it. The outer eyes of the front row are very slightly the 

 largest of the eight, the outer ones of the hind row next, and the 

 centre ones of the front row the smallest. The distance be- 

 tween the two centre ones of the hind row is slightly greater 

 than that between each and the end one on its side. The cen- 

 tral eyes of the front row are close together, but do not touch ; 

 and each touches the end eye nearest to it. 



Legs strong, moderate in length, clothed with hairs and a few 

 spines. Rather paler in colour than the cephalothorax. The 

 tibial, tarsal and metatarsal joints (except at the articulations) 

 suffused with blackish. 



Falces short, strong, and of a pale dull greenish colour. 



Palpi similar to the legs in colour. Radial and digital joints long, 

 and slightly suffused with blackish. 



Maxillae moderately long, strong and convex, enlarged at the top, 

 where they are rounded on the inner and obliquely truncated 

 on the outer sides. They are strongly inclined to the labium, 

 and are of a dull greenish hue. 



Labium broad at the base, from which it narrows into a triangular 

 shape, with the point blunted. Colour blackish brown. 



Sternum : line of junction with the labium, hollowed out. It is 

 heart-shaped and very convex, hairy, and of a greenish colour, 

 thickly mottled and suffused with dull blackish. 



Abdomen short-oval, thickly clothed with hairs, among which are 

 many long palish ones. It projects considerably over the base 

 of the cephalothorax. Colour black, freckled with minute pale 

 points. Upper side with a whitish spot on each side of the 

 medial line, at about half its length towards the spinners ; to 

 these succeed, on each side, an oblong, slightly oblique, pale 

 whitish patch, followed by two others rather more oblique, 

 forming chevrons interrupted at the centre ; these are followed 

 by one or two short, but rather curved transverse lines of the 

 same colour. 



Spinners dull greenish in colour. Inferior pair much stouter and 

 longer than the rest. Plates of the spiracles greenish, suffused, 

 especially towards the upper ends, with dull black. 



I met with the specimen above described on low plants in a wood 

 at Bloxworth, in May, 1862. It is evidently a very young specimen. 

 Its characters are, however, sufficiently marked to enable me to de- 

 scribe it as distinct from any known species ; and it appears to belong 



