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length, and tho female is larger. It may readily be distinguished 

 by the great longth and strength of the divergent falcos, which 

 are armed on their inner sidos with two strong, prominent, sharp 

 teeth, one of which is much larger than the other, and has a 

 small tooth-liko prominonce near the middle of its antorior side, 

 giving it a somewhat bifid look. The fangs are also long, 

 strong, slightly bicurvate, and havo a shallow, tooth-like 

 eminonoo about the middle of the inuor sido. The cephalo- 

 thorax and logs are dull yollow-brown, and the abdomen 

 black, with a few small whitish spots on the upper side, arranged 

 in two longitudinal, widely-separated rows. The legs of the 

 first and second pairs have, besides other bristles and hairs, 

 numerous oroot ones on the tibial and metatarsi. The palpi 

 somewhat resomble those of Nericne. Uvida. The fomalo 

 resembles the male in colours and genoral appearance. 



Two oxamplos of the male were mot with at Bloxworth, among 

 grass in damp places in May and Juno, 18/0-71, and a third 

 among heather, in 1875. In June, 1877, a male and several 

 females were found, among star grass, on the sand hills near 

 the sea at Studland. 



On a spider very closely allied to tho present Horr Menge, in 

 his History of Prussian Spiders, has established a now, and, 

 probably, good gonus Brepanodus. 



NERIENE RUFA. 



Tiieridion rufum, Wider, Zool. Misc. Mus. Sonck., p. 218, pi. 



xv., fig. 3. 

 Neriene RUBRIPE3, Blaclcw., Spid. Groat Brit, and Irel., p. 287, 

 pi. xix, fig. 201. 

 The male of this spidor is about 1-Gth of an inch in longth, and the 

 caput does not rise abovo the level of tho thorax. Tho colour of the 

 cephalo-thorax is rod-brown, tho logs reddish, and tho abdomen 

 brownish-black. Tho falces are very strong, prominent towards 

 their base- in front, and ■ havo a tooth-liko process noar their 

 extremity towards the inuor sido ; and tho logs aro furnisho! not 



