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outer side, in front. The radial joint is very short, but has its 

 fore extremity produced into a very long, strong, curved, slightly 

 tapering process pointing outwards over tho outside of the digital 

 joint; and there is another, very much smaller, curved process on 

 the outer side, directed backwards. The form of these joints 

 will distinguish this spider at once from Neriene rubens. The 

 fomales are difficult to distinguish at first sight, but their respective 

 genital apertures are quito different in form. 



This spider is not rare among underwood, in summer and 

 autumn, at Bloxworth ; and Mr. C. W. Dale has sent it to mo 

 from Glanvillos Wootton. I have also received it from other 

 parts of JSngland, and from Scotland. 



NERIENE VIGILAX. 



Neriene vigilax, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 277, 

 pi. xix., fig. 191. 



Length of the male scarcely one Line. 



The caput of this spider is not elevated. The colour of the 

 cephalo-thorax is dark-brown, that of the legs rehdish, and the 

 abdomen black. The fore extremity, on tho upper side, of the 

 radial joint of the palpus, has a curved, obtusely pointed process 

 pointing outwards, and the palpal organs have a slender black 

 spine coiled round at their foro extremity, towards the outer 

 side, and covered with a thin membranous substance. 



This is a very rare spider, and has been found once or twice 

 only, as yet, in Dorsetshire, running on a roadway in summer 

 time. Mr. Blackwall has met with it, once only, in North Wales 



NERIENE HERBIGRADA. 



Neriene herbigrada, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 

 285, pi. xix., fig. 199. 



The length of the male of this spider is less than 1 line, being 

 about 1-1 5th of an inch; and the female is rather larger. The 

 colour of the cephalo-thorax is brown, that of the legs yellow- 



