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NERIENE EUGAX. 



Neribne yuaAX, Camh:, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 445, pi. 56, 

 No. 33. 



An adult male measured 1-1 3th of an inch in length. The 

 whole spider is of a very elongate form. The caput is not raised 

 above the thorax, but behind each lateral eye, of the hinder row, 

 there is a small, but distinct, longitudinal indentation. Tho colour 

 of the cephalo-thorax is a deep, rich brown, while that of 

 the legs is bright, yellowish red-brown, the femora, however, 

 being paler than tho rest. The abdomen is of a rather flattened, 

 elongate-oval shape, glossy black, with a greenish tinge. The 

 palpi are yellowish and short; the cubital joint is curved, 

 enlarges gradually to the fore extremity and is longer than 

 the radial joint, which has three projections from its extremity ; 

 the largest and longest of these projections is in front, and ends 

 in a straight, red-brown, shining, corneous point, directed out- 

 wards over the base of the digital joint; this last joint is large, 

 of a round-oval form, and contains the palpal organs, which are 

 prominent and complex. The eyes are rather large, and those of 

 the two lateral pairs, with the four-centrals, form a curved line, 

 with scarcely any intervals between them. An adult female 

 resembled the male but was smaller. 



The two examples, above mentioned, of this distinct spider, are 

 the only ones yet recorded, and wore found among moss, in a 

 wood at Bloxworth, in April, 1867. 



NERIENE NEGLECTA. 



Neriene neglecta, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 443, pL 

 56, No. 31, a, b, c, d, e. 

 The adult male measures 1-I2th of an inch in length. The caput 

 is not raised above the thoracic level. The colour of the cephalo- 

 thorax (which is of a flattish form, with scarcely any marginal 

 compression at the caput), is of a yellow-brown colour, with a 

 few bristly hairs, directed forwards, in the central line. The 

 legs are of a pale yellowish hue, and the abdomen blackish- 



