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narrow ; the eyes are in two, not very long, curved rows 

 (of which the anterior is the shortest and least curved), forming 

 an oblong, somewhat oval, transverse figure, close to the insertion 

 of the falces, i.e., to the lower margin of the clypew, which is 

 thus almost obsolete. The tibise and metatarsi of the legs of 

 the first and second pairs are armed, on their under sides, with 

 two longitudinal parallel rows of long strong spines. 



The relative length of the legs is 4.1.2.3. 



Although included by Mr. Blackwall in the Family Agelenides, 

 Agroeca is undoubtedly a Drassid genus, the terminal tarsal 

 claws being two only, the spinners totally unlike those of the 

 Agelenides, and the general form and structure of the spiders 

 being also unmistakably like those of many others of the 



Two species only are known in Britain, and both of them 

 occur in Dorsetshire. 



AGROECA BRUNNEA. 



Aoelena BRtmNEA, Blackto., Spid., Great Brit, and Irel., p. 159, 

 pi, x., fig. 102. 



The length of the male is about 3 lines, that of the female 

 3J to 4 lines. 



The colour of the cephalo-thorax is reddish yellow-brown, 

 marked with blackish on the margins, and with some irregular 

 converging lines on the sides. The legs and palpi are yellow^ 

 brown, furnished with hairs and spines, and the abdomen (which 

 is hairy and "slightly larger behind than in front) is yellow- 

 brown with a somewhat golden tinge, and has a longitudinal dusky 

 blackish marking in the middle of the foro part, followed by a 

 series of similarly coloured angular lines ; the sides are marked 

 with blackish spots and markings. 



The radial apophysis of the male palpus is rather strong, 

 prominent, sharp pointed, and bent a little downwards at its 

 extremity ; the digital joint is large, and the palpal organs well 

 doveloped and complex. . 



