Arachnida. 8583 



dish edges and marks on their lobes and processes. At their 

 extremity are several fine, short, curved and other black spines. 



An adult male of this spider was captured by myself among the 

 rugged bark of Scotch firs, at Hursley, near Winchester, in May, 

 1862. A close and critical examination of the palpi of this species 

 will be necessary to distinguish it from others nearly allied, and 

 equally obscure-looking in their general characters. 



Neriene conigera. 



Male, adult. Length 1 -fifteenth of an inch. Length of cephalo- 

 thorax 1- thirty- third. Relative length of legs, 4, 1, 2, 3. 



Cephalothorax short, rather pointed at the eyes, where it is but 

 slightly compressed on the sides. It has a very slight longitu- 

 dinal indentation in the medial line of the hinder part. A very 

 slight transverse dip behind the ocular region. Colour pale 

 brown, with a greenish [tinge. Margins bounded by a sooty 

 brown line. 



Eyes in two rows slightly curved from each other, nearly equal in 

 size ; the centre ones of the hinder row rather the largest, and 

 those of the front row rather the smallest of the eight. The 

 centre ones of the hinder row are rather further apart than 

 each is from the end one on either side. The eyes of the front 

 row are about equidistant from each other ; those of the side 

 pairs close together, but do not touch. 



Legs moderate, and not greatly different, in length. The fourth 

 pair are very slightly longer than the first, and the third pair 

 shortest. Colour pale whitish, tinged with greenish yellow. 

 They are sparingly clothed with longitudinal rows of blackish 

 hairs, and a very few short, fine, nearly erect, black spines. 



Falces longish, but not very powerful, slightly paler in colour than 

 the cephalothorax. 



Maxillae strong, dilated at the base, slightly inclined towards the 

 labium, and obliquely truncated on the outer side. Similar in 

 colour to the falces, but paler at the top, and clothed on the 

 inner margins with sooty black hairs. 



Labium very short, semicircular, slightly dilated at the top. Co- 

 lour greenish, mottled with sooty specks. 



Sternum broad and very convex, square at the labium, to which it 

 is similar in colour. 



