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ornamented with a longitudinal series of connoctod, irrogularly- 

 diamond-shapod, blackish patchos on a greyish buff ground. 

 The remainder of the upper surface, togethor with the sides 

 and undersides, are also generally marked and spotted with dark 

 blackish brown. The palpal organs of the male are of a 

 simple pyriform shape, attached to the digital joint by the larger 

 or bulbous end, and drawn out gradually into a very fine, sharp, 

 simple point at the other end. The length of the female often 

 reaches nearly half an inch, but the male is much smaller and the 

 relative length of its legs diffors from that of the female, being 

 1.2.3.4., those of the third pair are vory slightly longer than the 

 fourth, and the metatarsi and tarsi of the two first pairs are curved 

 throughout with spines. 



SFttESTRIA BAVARICA. 



Seoestria b. varica, U. Koch, Die Arachn, vol. x, p. 93, pi. 

 351, fig. 818, and Westr. Aranero Suec, p. 298. 



This spider is exceedingly like S. senoculata ; it is, however, 

 larger — the male measuring 3J lines in length, and the female 

 5£ lines. Among the distinguishing characters the following will 

 serve to separate it without difficulty. 



The cephalo-thorax is much more densely clothed with short 

 grey hairy pubescence, and the abdomen also is more thickly 

 clothed with grey hairs, considerably obscuring their colours and 

 markings. 



The spines on the metatarsi of the first three pairs of legs 

 are much fewer ; a single spine only, beneath the posterior 

 extremity of those of the first and second pairs. 



The radial joint of the male palpus is less stout, though 

 perhaps a trifle longer in proportion to the length of the 

 cubital. 



The palpal bulb is of the same general pear-shape, but 

 whereas in S. senoculata the bulb goes off very gradually into a 

 long slender stem, whose extremity is curved and almost hair- 

 like, in S. Bavarica it goes off rather abruptly into the stem 



