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inches. There seems to be no reason why it should not occur in 

 this county. It is abundant in cellars, cupboards, and dark 

 unused rooms at Oxford, as well as in the London district, and 

 homo counties. It has been called " The Cardinal Spider " owing 

 to a tradition which connects it in some way with Cardinal 

 Wolsey, during his residence at Hampton Court. 



TEGENABIA ATBICA. 



Teoenakia atrioa, C. L. Koch., Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and 

 Irel., p. 165, pi. xi., fig. 106. 



This spider is almost, if not quite, as large in the body as 

 Tegenaria Quyonii ; but it is much shorter in the legs, and more 

 distinct in its colours and markings. The length of the male is 

 sometimes as much as 7 lines, and that of the female 9 lines. 



The cephalo-thorax is pale reddish-brown, darkest on the 

 caput, with a narrow, marginal, dark-brown line, and a broad 

 band of the same colour, on each side of the central longitudinal 

 line ; these bands are crossed by darker lines following the normal 

 indentations of the thorax. The legs are long, of a yellow-brown 

 hue, tinged with reddish ; those of the two first pairs, especially the 

 femoral joints, being by far the deepest coloured. The abdomen 

 is of a pale yellow-brown colour, thickly marked and spotted with 

 deep brown, and leaving, on the upper side, a longitudinal series 

 of pale, yellowish, angular lines, whose extremities are dilated 

 into blotches. The vertices of the angular lines, on the fore 

 part, are obscured by a longitudinal band of the same colour, 

 which, however, in some examples, runs narrowly throughout 

 the abdomen. The spots on the sides run into oblique lines, and 

 those underneath form two parallel, longitudinal, but obscure 

 bands. The sternum is yellowish, with a broad, marginal, black- 

 brown band, spotted with large yellow spots, one opposite to the 

 insertion of each of the legs. The middle joint of each of the 

 superior spinners is blackish. 



The radial joint of the male palpus has a large protuberance 

 on the outer side, terminating in a prominent apophysis whose 



