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and tarsi being the darkest, and the femora of the male "very 

 dark red-brown ; the femora and tibiee are often faintly annulated 

 with dusky blackish. The apophysis near the extremity, on the 

 outer side, of the radial joint is blackish and pointed ; the digital 

 joint is similar in form to that of T. atrica, and the palpal organs 

 are rather complex, with a strongish, curved, sharp-pointed spine 

 near their extremity. 



Tound plentifully in all parts of the county, and of Great 

 Britain generally, forming its snare in the angles of cellars and 

 rooms, also bohind old boards, in the corners of cupboards, and 

 in old boxes, &c. 



TEGENARIA CAMPESTRIS. 



Tegenaria campestris, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn viii., p. 34, Taf. 

 263, fig 615, 616. 



This spider is smaller than Tegenaria JDerhamii. The length 

 of the adult male being only 2J- lines, or rather more, and that 

 of the female about 3 £ ; and it is found more frequently out-of- 

 doors than in-doors. 



It may be distinguished readily, not only by its smaller size, but 

 by its more distinct colouring and markings, which are very like 

 those of T. atrica, though with a paler and clearer ground ; 

 especially it may be known (the adult males at least) by the very 

 large size of the digital joint of the palpus, and the greatly exag- 

 gerated development of the palpal organs. The penultimate joint 

 of the superior pair of spinners is black, and the legs are annulated 

 with blackish-brown. Adults of both sexes have been met with 

 in early summer, as well as in the month of November. 



I have met with it not uncommonly among heather, dead fern 

 and other rubbish, on the sides of banks on Bloxworth Heath ; 

 also under heaps of brickbats and stonos in the Eectory yard, as 

 well as among casks and firewood in a woodhouso adjoining. 

 Mr. Dale has sent me this spider from Glanvilles "Wootton; 

 and I have also found it in Hampshire, 



