regions are covered with yellowish-brown hairs. The legs are 

 reddish-brown, the tibire and tarsi annulatod with darker brown. 

 The cubital joint of the male palpus has a strong, dark-brown 

 projection at its outer extremity, and the radial joint has a longer, 

 more pointed one at its extremity underneath. 



The male and female, when adult, appear to live together, in 

 their funnel-shaped silken retreat, in a state of great amit/ . 



It is not easy to capture this spider ; in fact, to make sure of 

 it, the collector must come behind the snare very quietly and 

 drop a small particle of a blade of grass, or othei substance, 

 among the intersecting lines which cover the horizontal web ; 

 this seems to be mistaken for a fly or some other insect, and 

 seldom fails to bring the spider to the entrance of the funnel ; 

 the collector must afterwards thrust his hand suddenly into 

 the herbage, and secure the opposite end of the funnel, and then, 

 on the whole domicile being carefully drawn out, the tenant or 

 tenants will be found inside the web. Unless somo such precau- 

 tions as above detailed be taken, the spider seldom fails to escape 

 through the orifice at the hinder extremity of its funnel-shaped 

 nest. 



GENUS HAHNIA, C. L. Koch. 



The genus Hahnia forms a group of small spidors of a short 

 and rather robust form, with the long superior spinners of 

 Agelena, and with the spinning tubes similarly situatod beneath 

 their last joints ; it differs, however, slightly from that genus in 

 the position of the eyes, but most remarkably in that of the 

 spinners. These aro upturned, rather divergent from oacli other, 

 and form a single, transverse, noarly straight lino, beneath the 

 hinder extremity of the abdomen ; the exterior spinner on each 

 side — representing thoso of the usual superior pair — being the 

 largest and longest. 



Five species have been recorded in Britain, and all of them 

 are found in Dorsetshire, 



