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siderably elevated or gibbous, but not so abruptly protuberant 

 as in tbe last species ; nor is there any depression, clothed with 

 hairs, in front of the elevation as in NeriSne giblosa. Tho palpi 

 are very similar to those of that species. 



Tho female is very difficult to be distinguished from that of 

 Neriiine giblosa ; resembling it almost exactly in size and 

 colours. 



I have found this species in tolerable abundance in the same 

 locality, and at the same period of tho year, as the spider last 

 mentioned ; and Mr. Blackball has mot with it in North Wales. 



NEEIENE COBNUTA. 



Neeiene coenuta, Blachw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 267, 

 pi. xviii., fig. 181. 



The male of this very abundant but distinot little spider is 

 about l-12thof aninohin length, and the female is rather larger. 

 It may be known at once by two longitudinal-oval protuber- 

 anco on the fore part of the upper side of the caput; these 

 protuberances are parallel, and close to each other, and 

 have a rather forward direction, the eyes being close in front 

 of them. Tho cephalo-thorax is of a deep black-brown colour, 

 the legs and palpi brownish-red, and the abdomen black. The 

 radial joint of the male palpus has a long, slender, curved, 

 pointed apophysis at the fore extremity on the inner side, a small, 

 curved, pointed one in front, and a short obtuse one underneath ; 

 the palpal organs aro complex. The female resembles the 

 male in colours, but is larger and wants the cephalic protuber- 

 ances. 



I find this spider, very frequently, running on iron railings, and 

 on posts in sunshine, in spring-time and early summer ; also on 

 bushes and the lower boughs of trees at Bloxworth, and in many 

 other localities in Dorsetshire and England generally. It is 

 found also in North Wales, 



