28 



of the cephalo-thorax being yellow-brown ; the abdomen 

 is reddish yellow-brown, and has a dark, irregularly edged, taper- 

 ing band along the middle of the fore part, ending in a point 

 about one-third of the length from the spinners ; this marking 

 is a good deal obscured by the greyish-yellow hairs with which 

 the abdomen is clothed. 



The palpi are short and slender ; the radial apophysis is very 

 like that of Clubiona pallidula ; the digital joint is small, the 

 palpal organs simple, and not groatly unlike those of the spider 

 just named. 



Found in several localities at and near Bloxworth; some- 

 times in considerable abundance among water weeds, rushes, 

 and under heaps of the preceding year's cut-rushes, grass, and 

 rubbish, in swampy places, in May and June ; it has also been 

 sent to me from several other parts of England and Scotland. 



CLUBIONA BREVIPES. 



Clubiona beevipes, Blacho., Spid. Great Brit, and Irol., p. 127, 

 fig 80. 



The adult male measures about 2£ lines in length, and the 

 female about 3 linos. 



This spider is of a dark reddish-brown hue, the fore part of 

 the cophalo-thorax boing the darkest ; but, like most others 

 of tho genus, it is clothed with hairs, in the present instance of 

 a dull greyish hue, considerably disguising its real colours. 

 The form of the radial apophysis of the male palpus is very 

 striking ; it is large, rather tumid at its base, and has its termina- 

 tion, which extends over the base of the digital joint, of a sort of 

 strong crescent form ; the lower limb of the crescent is much 

 tho longest, and ends in a rather curved point, near which is 

 a small angular enlargement. • 



Pound not unfrequently on the lower branches of trees 

 (especially oak troes), in woods, and also on underwood, at 

 Bloxworth, in May, June, and the beginning of July. They 

 may easily bo obtained by beating the boughs, and bushes into 

 a large umbrella, or entomological net, I have nover yet mot 



