The palpi are very similar to those of Neriene innotahilis, to which 

 it is closely allied, hut the conical prominence on the digital 

 joint is stronger ; the relative position of the eyes of the hinder 

 row also differs, as may be seen on comparing the descriptions 

 of the two spiders. Found occasionally among moss in woods 

 at Bloxworth in the months of May and June. 



NERIENE CONIGERA. 



Neriene conigera, Carribr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii., p. 450, 

 pi. xxxiv., No, 17. 



Adult male, length 1-1 5th of an inch, female rather larger. 

 The caput is on about the same level as the thorax, with a 

 Btrongish dip between them. The colour of the cephalo-thorax 

 is yellow-brown marked with blackish marks, and veinings, 

 most of which converge to the thoracic junction ; the legs are 

 yellow, tinged with orange in some specimens, slender, and rather 

 short ; the abdomen black, glossy, and clothed very sparingly 

 with hairs. The eyes are of tolerable size, and rather closely 

 grouped in a tranverse, oval figure, the two rows being of equal 

 curvature ; those of the hind-central pair are a very little further 

 from each other than each is from the lateral eye on its side. 



This spider may be easily distinguished from both the fore- 

 going (to which it is nearly allied) by its smaller size, and by the 

 far greater development of a somewhat similar, but more consider- 

 able, conical prominence on the digital joint of the adult male ; the 

 apex of this prominence is slightly directed backwards and out- 

 wards, in a somewhat curved form. The palpal organs are 

 highly developed, and complex. 



The female resembles the male in colours and other general 

 characteristics. 



Found, very rarely, on furze bushes on the heath at Bloxworth, 

 in spring and early summer. I have received it from Aberdeen 

 and Berwickshire ; and have met with it also on furze bushes at 

 Newhaven, near Brighton. 



