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dark red-brown at the extremities of the joints. The digital 

 joint of the malo palpus is of a short, round-oval form, con- 

 stricted at its oxtremity ; the palpal organs are rather simplo, 

 but surrounded by the numerous coils of a very long, slender— 

 almost hair-like — black spine, and covered with a row of long 

 bristles issuing from the margin of tho digital joint. 



I have found this spider on furze bushes on Bloxworth Heath, 

 and on the lower boughs of oak trees in Morden Park, in the 

 month of June. The species appears to have a very wide range, 

 being found in the South of France, and Algeria ; I have also 

 received it from Spain and Portugal, and have myself mot with 

 it in Egypt, Palestine, and Italy. 



I first observed it, in England, on furze bushos on the Hursloy 

 Downs near Winchester. 



TIIERIDION PULCHELLUM. 



Tiieridion PCLcnELLUM, Walck, Macho., Spid. Great Brit, and 

 Irel. 



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

 l-8th. 



This very brightly coloured, and pretty spider is allied to the 

 foregoing, and resembles it a good deal in the charactor of 

 its markings ; but it is easily distinguished by its brighter colours, 

 as well as by various structural features. It is not uncommon 

 on rosebushes, and other plants and shrubs in gardens, as well 

 as on tho lower branches of trees and underwood. It has a 

 broad, blackish, central longitudinal band on the cophalo-thorax, 

 whose ground colour is yellow-brown. The legs are long, of a 

 yollowish-brown hue, annulated with rod-brown. The abdomen 

 has a longitudinal central, bluntly dentate, or sinuous, dark red- 

 brown band, bordered (most conspicuously in front) with yellow ; 

 the sides aro light reddish-brown, and tho under part is yellowish 

 with a broad red-brown band along the middle. The digital 

 joint of tho male palpus is rather elongato-oval, and the palpal 

 organs havo a prominent process, thus differing remarkably 



