HAHNIA ELEGANS. 

 Agelena eleoans, Blaclcw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 155, 

 pi. x., fig 99. 



This is the largest of the British species, the male measuring 

 l-9th and the female l-8th of an inch in length. 



The abdomen is of a dark, blackish-brown colour, marked with 

 a serios of obliquely opposed, yellowish, oval, spots, forming 

 angular bars along the middle of the upper side ; the rest of the 

 spider is of a brightish yellow-brown tinged with orange, the 

 cephalo-thorax being marked with a longitudinal central, and 

 lateral converging, black-brown lines. 



I have met with this spider in holes, such as those made by 

 the hoofs of cattle, in swampy places, as well as among moss and 

 water weeds in similar situations, in the month of June, near 

 Chamberlain's Bridge, between Bere Eegis and Wool. It is in 

 such holes, and in other depressions of the surface, that this 

 spider spins its snare, which consists of a small, simple, horizontal 

 sheet of web. 



HAHNIA NAVA. 



Agelena nava, Bladw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 158, pi. x. 

 fig. 101. 

 ,, subfusca, Camlr., Ann. and Mag. N. H., June, 1861. 



. A very small, dark coloured, and rather hirsute spider ; the 

 male measuring about one line, and the female about 1-1 1th of an 

 inch in length. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a deep, glossy, brown-black ; the legs 

 and palpi are dark-brown, tinged slightly with yellowish ; and the 

 femora and tibieo of the first and second pairs are of a deeper hue* 

 The abdomen is very dark-brownish or sooty black, the under part 

 being rather paler ; and the spinners have an annulated appear- 

 ance, being dark yellow-brown with pale articulations. The 

 palpi of the male are short, the cubital joint has a small promin- 

 ent process on its outer side, near the upper part, and the radial 



