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faloes darker, and strongly tinged with red. The legs and palpi 

 are bright brownish-yellow ; and the abdomen is deep blaok- 

 brown, clothed pretty thickly with fine prominent hairs. Looked 

 at in profile, the outline of the caput and thorax forms a rather 

 convex curved line, from the eyes to the hinder slope, which is 

 long and gradual ; the clypeus is nearly vertical, and its height 

 is equal to half that of the facial space. The eyes are small, 

 seated on black spots, but do not difier greatly in size ; those of 

 the lateral pairs are seated on oblique tubercles ; those of the 

 hind-central pair are nearer to each other than each is to the 

 lateral eye, of the same row, next to it. The f alces are moderately 

 long, but massive and strong, very prominent at their base in 

 front, straight, nearly perpondicular, and armed w ith some strong 

 sharp denticulations, near their extremity on the inner sides. 

 The logs are furnished with hairs only. A single oxample was 

 found at Blox worth among dead leaves in spring-time, some years 

 ago. It is nearly allied to (but I think distinct from) Neriem 

 huthwaitii, Cambr., a spider not yet found in Dorsetshire, though 

 very likoly to occur thore. 



NEEIENE ASPERA. 



Neriene aspera, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 448. 



Adult female, length 1-1 lth of an inch. 



This spider is nearly allied to Neriene negleota, Cambr., of whioh, 

 as before remarked, the female is not yet known. It resembles that 

 species very closely in form and colours, but is rather smaller and 

 much more hirsute, the hairs on the legs and abdomen being coarser 

 and denser ; it is also allied to Neriene ollonga (now removed to 

 Linyphia) ; but it may be at once distinguished from the latter 

 species by the absence of any spines on the legs, as well as by the 

 larger size, and closer grouping of the eyes. These form two, more 

 nearly straight, transverse rows, the rows being very close to 

 each other. The eyes of the hind-central pair are noarer to each 

 other than each is to the lateral on its side ; and those of the 

 fore-eentral pair are not quite contiguous to each other. Tha 



