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ANYPILENA ACCENTUATA. 



Anyphjena aooentuata, Walck., Blachw., Spid., Great Brit, and 

 Irel., p. 131, pi. viii., fig. 83. 



The length of the male is rather leas than three lines, that of 

 the female being a little more. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a yellowish-brown hue, with a broad, 

 irregular, longitudinal, black band on each side. The legs and 

 palpi are similar in colour, but marked and spotted with black. 

 The sternum is yellowish, broadly bordered with black, and the 

 abdomen is of a buffish yellow-brown, slightly tinged with red- 

 dish, and has, near the middle, two angidar, black lines close 

 togethor, the angles often broken, and thus giving a strong 

 resemblance to marks of accontuation ; the sides and hinder part 

 are thickly marked with black, and a black band runs along the 

 middle of the under-side from the fore extremity to the trans- 

 verse fold above-mentioned. 



The male is usually darker coloured than the female, and has 

 three yellowish spots on the black, thoracic 'bands; the humeral 

 joint of the palpus has a tuft of long, coarse, black bristles near 

 its base on the under-side, and the radial joint, which is longer 

 than the cubital, has some bristles of a similar kind on the upper 

 side. 



This very distinct, and easily-recognised spider is abundant at 

 Bloxworth, and in the neighbourhood, where it is found on 

 bushes, particularly furze bushes when in bloom, on trees, and 

 occasionally under old bark. It is also fond of concealing itself 

 in cracks or crevices of timber. I have frequently found many 

 examples in slender webs between the head of a gate and the 

 post, when the gate has been left for sometime unopened in the 

 spring of the year. It is very active, and parts with its legs 

 easily, if seized by one only at a time. 



GENUS AGEOECA, Westr. AGELENA, Blachw. (in part). 



The maxillfe in this genus are straight, of modorate length 



and strength, not enlarged at their extremities, and only a little 



inclined towards the labium. The fore part of the caput is rather 



