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this band is a series of oblique, brownish lines, which often unite 

 towards the hinder part and represent the ordinary angular 

 lines. 



Examples of this fine spider have very lately (October, 1878) 

 been sent to me by Mr. C. W. Dale, by whom they were found 

 near Lyme Regis in this county. It is usually found 

 under stones, in woods and waste places; and is adult in the 

 spring and summer months. It has occurred more commonly in 

 North Wales, the North of England, Scotland, and in Wych- 

 wood Forest, near Oxford. Mr. Dale has also (in 1877) sent it 

 to me from Lynton, in tho North of Devon. 



GENUS TEGENARIA, Lutr. 



The spiders of this genus have the cephalo-thorax very broad- 

 oval behind, and much constricted, laterally, on the margins of 

 the caput. Ealces powerful ; legs long, well clad with hairs' 

 hristlos, and spines. Superior 6pinners much the longest, 

 bi-articulate, and upturned. Mr. Blaekwall describes the 

 superior spinners of Tegenaria, and some others of the Ayelenides, 

 as tri-cvrticulate ; but the portion he considered to be a basal 

 joint, is no more than a continuous, inarticulate, prominence of 

 the abdomen itself. Maxillae long, straight, broadest at the 

 extremity, where they are rounded on the outer, and obliquely 

 truncated on the inner side. Labium short, oblong, rather 

 hollowed at the apex. 



Most of the genus Tegenaria are house-spiders, or, at least, live 

 in houses quite as much as out of doors. They spin a horizontal 

 sheet of web, covered by numerous lines crossing each other in 

 various directions, in the anglos of walls, corners of unused rooms 

 and collars, &c, with one or more apertures near the centre of 

 the web leading to a somewhat tubidar retreat, in or at the 

 mouth of which they usually lie in wait. 



Five species are at present known in -Britain, and four of these 

 havo been found in Dorsetshire j the fifth species (Tegenaria 

 Guyonii, Guorin, T. domestica, Blackw.) is the largest of the 

 group ; the extent of its outstretched legs often reaching four 



