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joint has on its under side a curved spine-like apophysis whose 

 point is directed outwards. The digital joint is rather large, and 

 the palpal organs simple, and almost surrounded by a long, 

 slender, black, filiform spine. Some examples are of a deeper 

 hue than others, and often of a slightly olive-greenish tinge. 

 Specimens kept for some time in spirit of wine lose their black 

 hue, and become rather like tho next species. 



I have found this spider in spring and early summer at Blox- 

 worth, running in sunshine, on iron railings, walls, and 

 posts ; also among short grass and herbage in meadows, as well 

 as under the crust left by the drying up of puddles on the 

 damper parts of tho heath. It may easily be distinguished from 

 numerous other small blackish spiders, found in some of the 

 above situations, and at the same season of the year, by the 

 peculiar position of its spinners, as well as by its rather hirsute 

 appearance. 



HAHNIA MONTANA. 



AgeI/ENA Montana, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 157, 

 pi. x., fig. 100. 



The length of the male of this spider is 1 line and that of 

 the female l-10th of an inch, some examples however being 

 smaller. It may be distinguished from ITahnia nava by its more 

 prevailing yellow-brown colour, and less hirsute appearance. 



The cephalo-thorax, legs, and palpi are yellowish-brown, tho 

 former with a blackish margin, and lateral converging lines .of 

 a dusky, blackish hue ; the abdomen is dark brown tinged with 

 yellowish and olive, and (when looked at closely) has its surface 

 covered with minute dusky yellowish spots. Some of these, 

 along the middle of the upper side, are arranged in a series of 

 transverse angular lines, indicating more exactly the position of 

 some obscure pale angular bars, while those on the sides are 

 arranged in, either somewhat longitudinal, or oblique, pale 

 lines. 



The palpi of the male are very similar to those of BTahnia nava, 

 but the digital joint is larger, and the cubital and radial apophy- 



