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brown. The falces are long, strong, straight, perpendicular to 

 the caput, rather gibbous in front near the base, and com- 

 pressed, or pinched in, at their extremities. Both the radial and 

 cubital joints are of a clavate form, tho radial being broadly, and 

 obtusely produced at its oxtremity on the outer side. 



This spider is evidontly very rare, sinoe but one example is on 

 record in Dorsetshire. It was found among moss at Bloxworth 

 in 1863. Some yoars since that time, however, I have received 

 one or two specimens of it from Scotland. 



NERIENB LIVIDA. 



Nbriene ltvida, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irol., p. 252, pi, 

 xviii., fig. 169. 

 „ „ Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc, xxvii., pi. 56, fig. 



No. 31, f.g.h. 



Tliis spider is very nearly allied to the foregoing, being of the 

 same general form ; but it is much larger, measuring l-8th of an 

 inch in length. It is also of a much dooper, rioher oolour, 

 besides differing slightly, though distinctly, in the structure of 

 the palpal organs. The cephalo-thorax is red-brown, deepest on 

 tho caput; the logs are dark, reddish yellow-brown, and the 

 abdomen blackish-brown, with four reddish yellow-brown, 

 impressed spots, in the form of a quadrangle, on its upper side. 

 The falces have the extromities flattened, as if by a sudden pinch 

 or compression very similar to those of Neriiine neglecta. The 

 female is larger, but resombles the male in colours and general 

 characters. It is not a rare spider under stones, and among 

 moss, or other a*6bris, in damp places at Bloxworth, and in several 

 other localities in Dorsetshire. It is also generally distributed 

 throughout England and Scotland. 



NERIENE ALBIPUNCTATA. 



Neriene amipunotata, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc, xxviii., p. 

 451, pi. xxxiv., No. 15. 

 The male of this spider measures nearly l-6th of an inch in 



