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The eyes are very unequal in sizo, anil are placed in three groups 

 (almost exactly like those of Pholcus) ; throe oyos of considerable 

 size and contiguous to each other, form a group on each side of 

 the fore part of the caput, and two minute oyes are placed, 

 near together, in a transverse line between those two groups. The 

 legs are short and without spines. 



PHOLCOMMA GIBBUM. 



Eriqone gibba, Westr., Aranso Suec, p. 279 (1861). 

 Theridion projectum, Cambr., Zoologist 1862, p. 7962. 



An exceedingly minute, but very curious little spider. The 

 male measures one-sixteenth of an inch in length, and the female 

 is slightly larger. It is found, though rarely, among heathor on 

 Bloxworth Heath in April and May ; and recently I have found 

 it, on two or three occasions, under a verandah at tho Rectory. 

 Besides the position of the eyes, mentioned above, the male has 

 a sort of sharpish-edged, eaves-liko projection, all round just 

 below the upper side of the abdomen, which is large and of a 

 somewhat globular form. The cephalo-thorax and legs are of a 

 red-brown colour, and the abdomen rather darker ; tho cuticle 

 being somewhat coriaceous, and mottled thickly with paler, 

 depressed points, or punctures, and clothed thinly with short, 

 strong hairs. The abdominal projection is but slightly visible in 

 the female. 



I have also received this spider from the North of England, 

 and several parts of Scotland, as well as from the Island of 

 Serk. 



GENUS THERIDION, Walch. THERIDION, Blackw. 

 (in part). 



The spiders of this genus are mostly of small sizo, and have 

 tolerably long, slender legs, furnished only with hairs and 

 occasionally strongish bristles; their rolative length is 1.4.2.3. 

 The abdomen is in most cases large, and more or less globular 

 inform, excepting in some males, in which it is either cylindrical. 



