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palpi and palpal organs ; these, together, present the appearance 

 of an enormous club at the end of a very slender stem. The 

 radial joint is very short, shorter than the cubital, and is dilated 

 on each side of its extremity ; the outer dilation is the longest, 

 ending in a blunt point ; and both are furnished with hairs, of 

 which some form a row round their outer margins. The caput 

 does not rise above the thoracic level. This spider is alliod to 

 Neriene livida, Blackw., but the far largor size of the digital 

 joint and palpal organs, will serve to distinguish it without any 

 difficulty. The female is unknown. 



An example of this rare spider was found by my son (Robert 

 Jocelyn), on iron railings at Bloxworth Rectory, on the 24th of 

 March, 1 875 ; and another was mot with by myself under a piece 

 of old board in the kitchen garden, on the 24th of May, 1877. 

 Two other oxamples only havo, as yet, occurred in Britain, one 

 near Dover, and the other at Paisley, in Scotland. 



NERIENE LATEBEICOLA. 



Neeiene latebkioola, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 444, 

 pi. 56, No. 32. 



The male of this spidor is only l-16th of an inch long. The 

 cophalo-thorax has the caput slightly raised above the thorax, 

 Taut only in a generally oonvex form; its colour is a light 

 yellowish-brown, that of the legs being of a deeper hue, tinged 

 with red-brown ; and the abdomen is dusky -brown, tinged with 

 greenish-yellow. The radial joint is equal to the cubital in 

 length, but is stronger, and projects from its upper side, towards 

 the hinder extremity, a long, strong, slightly sinuous, rather bent, 

 "bluntish pointed apophysis, the length of which almost equal 

 to that of the radial and cubital joints together. 



I found both sexes of this very distinct little spider, in tolerable 

 abundance, among moss in a wood at Bloxworth, in the spring of 

 1866. It had been discovered only a few days previously near 

 Paisley, in Scotland, 



