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 TEGBNABIA CINEBEA. 



Abanea oinerea, Panzer, Faun. Ins. Germ, 4, 23, and Thorell, 

 Syn. Eur. Spid., 514. • 



Teoenabia cicurea, C. L. Koch, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxviii, p. 535. 



This spider may easily be known from most of its congeners by its 

 smaller size, the male measuring 3 lines in length, and the female 

 3J- to 4 ; and particularly by its plainer colouring, the abdomen 

 being of a uniform, greyish, luteous colour without markings of 

 any kind. The legs are not so hairy as those of some others of 

 that genus, but more spiny. The palpal organs are complex and 

 highly developed, with a strong, curved spine on the inner side, 

 and a twisted, sharp-pointed spine on the outer side, both near 

 their base. 



Adult examples, of both sexes, were found in a dry, 

 unused sewer at Bloxworth Rectory in the autumn of 1872. 

 Their snares, spun in the angles of the sewer, resembled those of 

 Tegenaria Derhamii ; and their egg cocoons, of a flattish, lenticular 

 form and white colour, were loosely attached by silken threads 

 to the walls, where any inequality existed. 



GENUS TEXTRIX, Smd. 



This genus is nearly allied to Tegenaria, but may be dis- 

 tinguished by the caput being still more constricted on the sides, 

 and rather more produced forwards. The spinners of the superior 

 pair are also longer, and the hinder row of eyes instead of having 

 the convexity of its curve directed backwards, has it, on the con- 

 trary, directed forwards, so that the position of the eyes assumes 

 somewhat that of the genus Lycosa. 



I am not aware that the spiders of this genus are ever found 

 in houses, but generally in crevices of banks, and among loose 

 stones of walls, and such like places ; two species only are 

 known as British, both being found in Dorsetshire, 



