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two longitudinal diverging lines ; the anterior pair of these spots 

 being much more conspicuous than the rest. Beneath the fore 

 extremity of the abdomen is a sort of socket, serrated or denticu- 

 lated on its upper edgo, and into this the hinder extremity of the 

 cephalo-thorax fits, like that of Asagena phalerata. The under 

 side is of a pale hue, margined with white, and marked with 

 a contral, longitudinal, deop red-brown band, divided in front by 

 a white patch. 



The legs are modorately long and strong ; their colour is 

 yellow-brown, with, at times, darker annulations. 



The palpi of the male aro long, the digital joint large, and the 

 palpal organs prominent and highly developed. 



The sexes are very similar in colours and markings. 



This is often a vory abundant spider in lofts, outhouses, stables 

 and in the windows of neglocted rooms ; it is also found under 

 large stones and logs of wood. Examples may be mot with all 

 the year round, but its usual time of maturity is in the early 

 summer months. It appears to bo gonorally distributed through- 

 out England. 



STEATODA STICTA. 



Theiudion stiotum, Cambr., Ann. and Mag. N. H., 3 Ser. vii., p. 

 432. 



,, ,, Blachw., Spid. Groat Brit, and Irel., p. 196, 



pi. xiv., fig. 126. 



The length of the male is 1J lines; the female is rather 

 larger. 



This a much smaller and brighter coloured spider than the 

 precoding, which it resembles very nearly in its general form, 

 and somewhat also in the character of its markings. Tho male 

 is much deeper and richer in colours than the female. 



The cephalo-thorax and sternum (of tho male especially) are 

 strongly marked with granulations and punctures ; and aro of a 

 bright, mahogany red-brown colour, deepening almost into black 

 on tho caput. Tho logs aro of a bright orango-yollow, tinged 



