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male is scarcely more than 2 lines in length, the female being 

 rather larger. The cephalo-thorax is of a reddish-brown hue» 

 the legs and palpi yellowish brown, and the abdomen is yellow- 

 brown, with (in the female) a dark reddish yellow-brown, longi- 

 tudinal marking on the upper side, along the middle of the fore 

 part, followed by a series of strong angular bars of the same 

 colour on the hinder half. The male is much darkor coloured, 

 and the ground colour of the abdomen maj' be described as of a 

 dark, slightly reddish-brown hue, with the angular bars formed 

 of opposed, oblique, elongate-oval, pale yellow-brown, spots. 

 The radial joint of the malo palpus has a strong apophysis at its 

 extremity on the outer side, and from its end issues a slender, 

 fine pointed, strongly curved spine. 



Abundant on the lower boughs of trees, as well as on 

 underwood in spring and summer, in woods at Bloxworth and in 

 many other localities. I have also often found it in autumn (but 

 then immaturo) enclosed in a silken nest, and rolled up in a dead 

 leaf on the ground ; in this way they no doubt safely pass the 

 winter in sheltered and protected spots. 



CLUBIONA TRIVIALIS 



Clubiona trivialis, L. Koch, Die Arachn. x., p. 132, Taf 359, 

 fig. 844-845. 



The length of the male is about 1J lines; is form is very 

 similar to that of several of the foregoing species and its general 

 hue is yellowish, and reddish yellow-brown. The palpi are 

 moderately long, the digital joint is large, but the palpal organs 

 do not present any very distinctive point of structure ; the radial 

 apophysis, however, is very characteristic, being a strong 

 production of the outer extremity of the joint, with a broad, 

 obtuse, and somewhat rounded, termination. 



The female is larger than the male, but resembles it in colours 

 and other general characters. 



Very rare, among heather and on furze bushes, at Bloxworth, 

 in June and July. I have also met with it in Scotland, and in 

 some other localities in England. 



