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NERIENE DENTIPALPIS. 



Thebidion dentipalpe, Wider, Mus. Senck, 1, p. 248, taf. 17, 

 fig. 1. 



Nebiene dentipalpis, Cambr., Zoologist 1863, p. 8598, and 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii, p. 448, pi. 

 xxxiv., No. 21. 



This spider is of the same size as Neriene atra and exceedingly 

 like that, and the last speoies also ; but it may be distinguished 

 readily, from both, by a small, but distinct, tooth-like spine 

 behind the radial joint of the male palpus ; the same joint is 

 also very prominent at the fore extremity on its outer side, 

 and tho produced portion of the uppor side differs in form from 

 that of both the other species. 



It is found at the same periods and in the same localities as 

 N. atra, and is equally abundant, 



NEEIENE GBAMINICOLA, 



Neeiene geaminioola, Bhchw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 

 272, pi. xix., fig. 186. 



Linypiiia geaminioola, Smdevall, Sv., Spindl. Beskr. in Vet. 

 Akad, Hand!, f. 1829, p. 213. 



The male measures 1 -1 0th of an inch in length. The colour of 

 the cephalo-thorax (which has tho ocular area a little prominent) 

 is yellow-brown, with a blackish marginal lino, and some con- 

 verging blackish lines on the thoracic portion ; the logs and 

 palpi are reddish yellow-brown, and the abdomen blackish. The 

 cubital joint of the male palpus has a short, pointed, spur-like 

 prominence beneath the fore extremity, but it is not nearly so 

 long as that in tho throe forogoing spocies. The radial joint S3 



