3? 



The female resembles the male in colours and markings, but is 

 rather larger. 



Agroeca proximo, is abundant among moss and heather, and 

 among debris of all kinds in hedges and woods at Bloxworth and 

 in the neighbourhood. In these situations I also frequently find 

 little pear-shaped egg cocoons corresponding very nearly to those 

 supposed to belong to A. brmnea, except in being less in diameter 

 though longer in the bulbous part (plate ii., fig. 7). 



They are likewise fixed in the same way to rushes or 

 twigs of heath, grass stems, and rushes. Some of them 

 may be found uncovered if met with before, or shortly after p 

 the eggs are placed in them, but more commonly they are 

 found plastered over as above described. I have often hatched 

 the young spiders from these cocoons, but have never succeeded 

 in keeping them alive longer than to be able to determine their 

 genus. I have, however, but little doubt that those now 

 referred to are made by A. proximo, though no parent spider has 

 ever been detected even near a nest, still less in the act of form- 

 ing it, or coating it with day. 



GENUS LIOCEANUM, L. Koch. CLUBIONA, Blackw. in 

 part, + Aqelena. Blackw. in part, and + Dbassus, Cambr. in 

 part. 



Liocranum is nearly allied to Agroeca, but the maxillee are 

 shorter, stronger in proportion, and very little inclined to the 

 labium. The legs are very long, their relative length being 

 4.1.2.3., and the eyes are rather closely grouped in two nearly 

 concentric curved rows. The front row is, excepting in one species, 

 the least curved, and the convexity of the curve is directed back- 

 wards. Looked at in profile the cephalo-thorax slopes gradually 

 forwards, from the beginning of the hinder slope to the eyes, 

 which are placed very near to the lower margin of the clypeus. 

 The legs have two parallel rows of long, strong spines beneath 

 the tibire, and metatarsi of the first two pairs. Four species are 

 at present recorded as British, and all of these have been found 



