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height of the elypeus is equal to half that of the facial space. 

 The terminal tarsal claws are more than usually conspicuous. 



A single example only was found, in the month of June some 

 years ago, on tho iron railings enclosing tho lawn at Bloxworth 

 Eectory. 



NERIENE APERTA. 



Neriene aperta, Canibr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 450. 



The length of the adult female is l-16th of an inch. 



The whole of the fore part of this spider (which is allied to 

 Neriene livida, Bl.), including the legs and palpi, is yellow-brown' 

 tinged slightly with red ; and the abdomen is black, tinged with 

 yollowish, and clothed thinly with hairs. The eyes of the 

 hinder row are separated by equal intervals, and the fore- 

 centrals are contiguous to each other. The height of the elypeus 

 slightly exceeds half that of tho facial space, and the occipital 

 region is a very littlo higher than the rest of tho caput and 

 thorax. Tho logs are clothed with coarse hairs, and a few 

 slender, erect bristles. The falces are strong, slightly directed 

 backward, and rather divergent. Tho large size of the genital 

 aperture, which is nearly circular, and placed on the summit of 

 a large, red-brown, rounded protuberance, is very characteristic 



A singlo oxamplo found among moss at Bloxworth, in April, 

 1866. 



NERIENE HISPIDA. 



Neriene hispida, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 449. 



Adult female length l-8th of an inch. This spider resembles 

 Neriene livida, Bl. very closely in its colours, but is smaller and of a 

 stouter form, and may be readily distinguished by the rugulosity 

 of the front of tho f alcos which are strong, straight, and vertical ; 

 a portion at the base and at the extremity is, however, free 

 from rugulosity, and tho oxtremity is not pinched in, or flattened, 

 as in N. livida. The abdomen also is blacker and more hirsute ; 

 boing clothed with short, strong, prominent hairs, and projecting 



