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nearly parallel rows ; and the tibiae and metatarsi of the first and 

 second pairs have two parallel, longitudinal rows of spines 

 beneath them. 



CRYPHOECA MOERENS. 



Coelotes moerens, Cambr., Zoologist 1863, p. 8572. 



The cephalo-thorax of this rare spider is dull, pale yellowish- 

 brown, marked with dark blackish margins and converging lines, 

 and suffused with blackish at the forepart of the caput. The 

 foremost row of eyes is the shortest and nearly straight, and the 

 hinder one curves slightly from it, the convexity of the 

 curve directed backwards. The eyes of the foremost row are 

 very close together. The legs and palpi are paler than the 

 cephalo-thorax, and the former have their tibiae, tarsi, and meta- 

 tarsi suffused with blackish. The maxillae are strongly inclined 

 to the labium. The abdomen is black, freckled with small pale 

 ■ipots or points ; the upper side has a whitish spot on each side 

 of the middle ; each of these is followed by an oblong, slightly 

 oblique patch of the same colour, after which come two other 

 patches, on each side, rather more oblique and (like the former) 

 opposed to each other, forming angular lines, interrupted at their 

 apices ; between these and the spinners are one or two short, 

 rather curved, transverse lines of a similar hue. 



The inferior spinners are longer and stronger than the 

 superior ; thus differing from those of the rest of the Jgelenides. 



A single example, not yet adult, and measuring only 1-1 5th 

 of an inch in length, was found among low plants in Berewood 

 near Bloxworth, in May, 1862, and still remains unique. 



I am not convinced as to the correctness of its present systematic 

 position, in which, however, I have placed it in accordance with 

 the opinion of Mons. Eugene Simon, who has carefully examined 

 the specimen here described. 



GENUS COELOTES, Blackw. 



The cephalo-thorax in this genus is of an elongate form, oval 

 behind, broadish in front, and constricted (but not so strongly as 



