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which is also shortor, less attenuated, its extremity 

 stouter, and less curved, and also, closo to its termination, there 

 is a small prominent sharp point, giving it a bifid appearance. 



This fine addition to our list of British Spiders was kindly 

 sent to me from Glanvilles Wootton by Mr. C. W. Dale, in 

 October, 1877 ; this is, therefore, its first record as a British 

 spider. Probably its similarity to S. senoculata may have caused 

 it to be mistaken for that species, and thus to have been 

 hitherto overlooked. 



GENUS OONOPS, Templeton. 



The Gonus Oonops (as its namo suggosts) may bo known by 

 its large egg-shaped eyes. These are closely grouped in 

 three pairs, as in Sege&tria, but the pairs are all con- 

 tiguous to each other, instead of being (as in that Genus) 

 pretty widely separated. The lege are moderatoly long and 

 slender — 4.1.2.3. The epiracular openings in the typical 

 species are very difficult to be seen. M. Simon haB indeed ques- 

 tioned whether it possesses more than two. I believe that I 

 can discern four, bu t if it should prove to be the case that there 

 are only two, tho Genus Oonops will perhaps havo to be removed 

 from the Family Dysderides. Only one species is as yet known 

 in Britain, and that one is found, not unfrequently, in Dorsetshire. 



OONOPS PULCHER. 



Oonops pulcher, Tempi,, Blackw. Spid. Great Brit, and Irol., 

 p. 377, pi. xxix., fig. 271. 

 A very small, bright brickish-red-coloured, and very 

 active spider. The female measures no more (indeed 

 generally rather less) than one line in length, and tho male is 

 smaller. It is of a rather elongate form, and the fore part of the 

 caput is somewhat pointed. The palpal organs are very similar in 

 form to those of Segestria senoculata. The tibia) and meta- 

 tarsi of the legs are armed on the underside with two parallel rows 

 of long, strong, and generally sessile, spines, but the spider has the 



