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an inch in length. It may easily bo distinguished from both 

 those species hy the prevailing hue, which is of a dark iron 

 grey, caused by a dense grey pubescence on a nearly black 

 ground. The abdomen has a broad, dontated, black band along 

 the middle of tho upper side, rather tapering at each end ; and 

 on the hinder part several whitish angular lines arc sometimes 

 visible In tho form of tho fakes, palpi, and papal organs there 

 is a very close similarity to 1). amndinacea. 



Found frequently on bushes and underwood, particularly on 

 furze hushes on tho heath at Bloxworth, and in many other 

 localities in Dorsetshire, when the furze bloom is full out in Hay 

 and Juno. It is also common in numerous other parts of Eng- 

 land. 



GENUS LETniA, Menye. GTNIFLO, Blackw. (in part). 



Tho spiders of this genus have not the very convex caput 

 of Dictyna, nor its peculiarly shaped fakes. Tho maxilla) are 

 strong, straight, enlarged at their extremities and inclined a 

 little towards the labium, which is obloug-oval and truncated 

 at the apex. The eyes are in two transverse curved rows. 



The legs are rather short, and not very different in absoluto 

 length'; their relative longth is 1.2.4.3., or 1.4.2.3., the difference 

 between 2 and 4 being very slight. There are calamistra on tho 

 metatarsi of the fourth pair, with the supernumerary spinning 

 organs in front of the other spinners ; and tho terminal tarsal 

 claws are three in number. 



The spiders of this genus are all very small ; six are at present 

 known as British, four of them being found in Dorsetshire. 



LETIIIA IIUMILIS. 



Ciniflo iiumilis, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 145, 

 pi. ix., fig. 92. 

 The adult male of this pretty little spider measures about one- 

 twelfth of an inch in length, and the female one-tenth. The 

 cephalo-thorax is of a brown hue, marked with a marginal, and 

 lateral converging, blackish-brown lines. The legs are yellowish' 



