100 



oval, and often globularly convox above, as well as slightly 

 pointed at the spinners, is yet not so exceedingly convex, nor as 

 elevatod at tho fore part of the upper side, as in Thcridion. Tho 

 palpi of the male are also much shorter than in Stcatoda. The 

 relative length of the legs is 1.4.2.3., and they aro devoid of 

 spines. Four species have been recorded as British, two only, 

 as yet, having occurred in Dorsetshire. 



EURYOPIS INORNATA. 



Themdion inornatum, Crt»i£>-.,Ann. and Mag., N. H., June, 1861. 

 ,, ,, Blachv., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 196, 



pi. xiv., fig. 127. 



The length of the female is one lino, the male being rather 

 smaller. 



This is a plainly, but distinctly, coloured spider ; its eephalo- 

 thorax and legs aro of a reddish-yellow colour, the tibioo of the 

 first two pairs of legs, as woll as the extremities of the tibia) of tho 

 fourth pair, blackish. Tho abdomen is blackish, glossy, and of 

 a roundish-oval form. The digital joints of the palpi of the 

 male, with the palpal organs, form a largeish, round-oval club- 

 liko end ; and the convex sidos of these joints are directed 

 towards each other. I have found this species, among heather, 

 on Bloxworth Heath, and also undor stones in tho Isle of Port- 

 land. It is adult in the months of May and June. 



EURYOPIS FLAVOMACULATA. 



Miorypiiantes flavomaculatus, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn. iii., 



p. 67, Taf. 95, fig. 220. 

 Theridion flavomaculattjm, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and 



Irel. p. 201, pi. xiv., fig. 132. 



The length of the male is l-7th of an inch, and the female 

 rather larger. 



The cephalo-thorax and legs are of a reddish yellow-brown 

 colour, tho legs being rather tho lightest in hue, The fore- 



