FAMILY AGELENIDES. 



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ITH few exceptions the spider of this family may be 

 known, from the foregoing, by the greater length of 

 their very hairy, and spiny legs ; and especially by the 

 length of the superior pair of spinners. The cephalo-thorax also 

 (looked at from above) is usually much rounder behind, and the 

 caput more produced forwards, as well as much more constricted on 

 its lateral margins. The eyes are placed in two more or less curved 

 transverse rows ; they are not very large, nor greatly different in 

 size, and those of the lateral pairs are not contiguous to each other. 

 Their usual snare is a, more or less horizontal, sheet of web with 

 one or more tubular retreats leading from it, and numerous 

 irregular lines disposed about it. To this, Argyroneta aquatica, 

 Latr. (not yet found in Dorsetshire, but abundant in ditches, pools, 

 and ponds in some parts of England), is an exception. 



The legs have no calamistra, and there is no supernumerary 

 spinning organ. Tarsal claws three in number. Legs 4.1.2.3. 



GENUS CEYPHOECA, Thorell. TEGENAEIA, Blaclw, in 

 part + COELOTES, Cambr., in part. 



An obscure genus, of which two species only are regarded as 

 British. One of these (not yet found in Dorsetshire) is included 

 by Mr. Blackwall in the genus Tcgcnaria—T. sihicola, "Walck.— 

 and the other, described by myself some years since, provisionally, 

 as a Coelotes, was found in Dorsetshire. 



The maxillce are - straight, rounded at their extremity, some- 

 times inclined to the labium, which is short, broadest at the 

 base, and truncated at the apex. Eyes in two slightly curved, 



