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the digital joint is small and round-oval in form; tho palpal 

 organs are well developed and complex, but compact. 



One example only, found at Bloxworth, has as yot come 

 before me. When first described it was stated, inadvertently, to 

 have been found near London. Its nearest ally is Neriene 

 fuseipalpis, C. L. Koch, but the faloes are larger and less strong 

 at their base, and the form and struoture of the palpi and palpal 

 organs is different. 



NERIENE ARUNDINETI. 



Neriene arundineti, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 441. 



Adult female length l-10th of an inch. 



This spider is very like the female of Neriene Uvida, El. 

 it is, however, smaller ; its abdomon is blackor, and devoid of 

 the pale markings, and red-brown, impressed spots on the upper 

 side, and is more perceptibly clothed with long, prominent, pale 

 hairs ; nor is it likely to be the female (at present unknown) of 

 Neriene neglecta, Cambr., the relative position of the eyes of the 

 hinder row being different ; in the present spider these are 

 equidistant from each other ; and the inner extremities of the falces 

 are devoid of the depressed, or pinched form characteristic 

 both of Neriene Uvida and Neriene neglecta ; it is more like the 

 female (lately discovered) of Neriene albipunctata, Cambr., but at 

 present I believe it to be distinct also from that species. 



I have met with but one example of this spider — in a marshy 

 spot at Bloxworth in 1866. It occurs (I am told by Dr. L. 

 Koch who has oxamined the specimen described) near Niirnberg, 

 in Bavaria. 



NERIENE FORMIDABILIS. 



Neriene formidabilis, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc, xxvii., p. 447. 



This is the largest spider of the group yet known to me, the 

 length of the adult female being very nearly 1-oth of an inch. 



The colour of the cephalo-thorax is dark yellow-brown; the 



