with red. The palpi of the male are long, strong, and similar 

 to the legs in colour ; tho digital joints (together with the palpal 

 organs) form a conspicuous object, as tho spider runs with tho 

 palpi stretched in front at full length. Tho cubital joint is curved 

 prominent above, and strongly clavate at its oxtremity ; the radial 

 joint is shorter, eproads out at its extromity, and is fringed, noar 

 the fore margin, with longish hairs ; tho ond of tho digital joint 

 is rather drawn out, and has a conspicuous, prominent projection 

 on its innor side ; tho jmlpal organs aro prominent and complex. 

 Tho abdomen is yellow-brown, with the sides, and a patch on 

 each .side of the medial line of the upper part of the fore 

 extromity, black ; the upper part is also divided longitudinally 

 by a whitish stripo ; a similar stripe encirclos the anterior 

 . extremity, and four deep rod-brown impressed spots form a 

 quadrangular figuro noar the middle Beneath tho fore oxtremity 

 is a similar socket to that noticed in tho foregoing species 

 (Steatoda lipunctataj. 



This oxcoodingly rare, as well as distinct and pretty, spider 

 has been found on several occasions after long searching, among 

 moss and heathor on Bloxworth Heath, but hitherto not in any 

 othor localities. Among tho examples found ono only has beon 

 a male A variety of tho femalo occasionally occurs, in which 

 tho abdomen is of a uniform and nearly black hue. 



STEATODA CORACINA. 



Tiiemdion coracinum, C. L. Koch., Die Arachn., Bd. viii., p. 84, 

 Taf. 276, fig. 655. 

 ,, D Cambr., Trans. Linn Soc. xxvii., p. 422. 



Tho longth of the male is 1 lino. 



A singlo oxamplo only of this spidor has, as yet, been rocorded 

 in Britain; this specimen I found among hoathcr at Morden 

 Park, near Bloxworth, in May, 1863. Its uniform, sooty-black 

 colour, save tho extremities of the logs, which are white, 

 will rondor it easily to be distinguished whon mot with. The 

 palpi aro long; the cubital and radial joints very short, tho 



