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NERIENE LONGIMANA. 



Erigone longimana, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn. viii., p. 93, Taf. 

 278, fig. 661, 662. 



Neriene vagans, Blachw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel. p. 257, 

 pi. xviii., fig. 173. 

 The malo of this spider is rather less than 1 line in length, 

 the female being slightly larger. 



The caput is not elevated above the thoracic level, nor is it 

 prominent before ; the whole cephalo-thorax is of a more or less 

 dark, yellowish-brown colour ; the legs reddish brown, and the 

 abdomen nearly black. 



It may be easily recognised by the great length of its slender 

 palpi, of which the 'digital joint is very small, while the radial 

 has its fore extremity, in front, produced into a long, curved 

 process, the point of which is enlarged and roundish. 



As yet we must reckon this little spider among our rarer 

 species, inasmuch as I have only met with it in Dorsetshire (at 

 Bloxworth and in the neighbourhood) three or four times. It 

 appears to be far more frequent in Wales and Scotland ; and 

 is adult during the summer months. It may be distinguished 

 from some other minute, and allied, spiders, with long palpi, by 

 the browner hue of the cephalo-thorax, and the absence of any 

 spur on the under side of the cubital joint, as well as by the 

 more depressed caput. The sexes resemble each other in colour 

 and general characteristics. 



NERIENE RUPIPES. 



LnnrpmA ritfipes, Sundevall, Sv. Spindl. Beskr. in Vet-Akad. 



Handl., f. 1829, p. 215; 1832, p. 259. 

 Neriene uVwda., Blacho., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 265, pi. 



xviii., fig. 180. 



The length of the male of this spider is l-8th of an inch ; the 

 female being rather larger. 



