Tho abdomen of the female is more than usually globular in 

 form ; its colour is brownish, mixed with white, and with a 

 whitish, dentated band, bordered outsido with dark-brown, along 

 tho centre of the uppor side ; this band gots narrower towards its 

 hinder extremity, but has a conspicuous, triangular enlargement 

 at its fore extremity, often of a whiter colour, and so more con- 

 spicuous than the rest; the colour of the cephalo-thorax is 

 reddish-brown, darkest on tho latoral margins and along tho 

 middle. The male is liko tho female, but generally smaller and 

 darker coloured. It is very abundant in some seasons at Blox- 

 worth, and in some other localities, among the heather, and on 

 furze bushes, whence, when they aro in bloom, numbers of this 

 specios may be obtained by beating the bushes into an umbrella 

 placod undornoath. I have also found it among underwood. 



I have mot with it in Hampshire and received it from Scot- 

 land. 



THERIDION RUFOLINEATUM. 



Tiiemdion eufolineatom, Luc, Explor. en Algerio, Arachn., 



p. 260, pi. 16, fig. 10. 

 „ spirifer, Camlr., Zoologist 1863, p. 8574, and Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 280. 

 Length of the male l-9th of an inch, and of tho female l-7th. 

 This is a rather larger spider than either of tho foregoing ; it 

 has a broad, central longitudinal, and narrow, lateral marginal, 

 roddish-brown bands on the cephalo-thorax ; the intermediate 

 spaces being of a dull yellowish hue. The abdomen has, on the 

 upper side, a broad, deep, black-brown, and sometimes reddish, 

 roughly dentated, and rather tapering, longitudinal, central 

 band, borderod laterally with a whitish line ; and on each side 

 of the central band is a well defined, broad, whitish, or yellowish 

 one, commonly mottled with rusty red ; the sides are dark black- 

 brown mottled with dull yellow-brown ; this latter colour often 

 forming two or more parallel, and slightly oblique lines. The 

 under side is black ; the Btornum yvllow-brown with a dusky 

 black margin. Tho logs aro brownish-yellow, aunulatod with 



