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base, which is indented on the outer side. The palpal organs 

 are highly developed, and complex. The legs are furnished 

 with a few, very fine, bristle-like spines, and on this account it is 

 placed in the genus Linyphia by Dr. Thorell. It has, however, 

 it seems to me, stronger affinity to Neriene in the more important 

 parts of its structure, and consequently I have not followed in 

 this removal. It will probably form one of the group men- 

 tioned in describing the last species. 



Found, but rarely, among moss at Bloxworth in the spring, 

 and early summer months. It has also been met with in North 

 Wales and Scotland. 



NERIENE SUNDEVALLII. 



Eriqone sundevallii, Westr., Aran. Suoc., p. 290, and Cambr., 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 450. 



The length of the male of this spider is 1-1 3th of an inch, and 

 the female is a little larger. The cophalo-thorax is of a yellowish- 

 brown colour, the caput darkest, but not raised above the level of 

 the thoracic portion. The legs are of a yellow-brown hue, some- 

 times tinged with dull reddish. Those of the first and second 

 pairs are not only furnished with hairs and slender bristles, but 

 have also, beneath the tibias and metatarsi, two longitudinal rows 

 of decided, and slightly curved, strongly divergent spines. 

 These spines are most conspicuous in females. The 

 colour of the abdomen is dark blackish-brown, and occasionally 

 quite black. The palpi aro short, the digital joint is of 

 moderate size, but the palpal organs aro not remarkable for any 

 great peculiarity of developement. The female resembles the 

 male in colours, as well as in the spines beneath the two foro 

 pairs of legs. 



I have found both sexes of this little spider on several occasions 

 among moss in damp woods, at Bloxworth, in the months of 

 April, May, and June, and havo also received it from Ireland. 



The spines underneath the two first pairs of legs will serve 

 to distinguish this spepies from all others of • this group known 

 to me. 



