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greatly over the base of the cephalo-thorax. The height of the 

 clypous is equal to half that of the facial spaco. The eyes of the 

 hind-central pair are nearer together than each is to the lateral 

 eye, next to it ; the f oro-contrals aro unusually separated, and 

 with the hind-centrals form very nearly a square, whose fore 

 side is a little tho shortest. The legs are strong, and well fur- 

 nished with coarse hairs and slender erect bristles. 



This species is nearly allied to (but I think distinct from) 

 Neriene albipunctata, Cambr. Examples of it were found at 

 Portland, under stones, in October, 1860. 



NERIENE JUGULANS, Sp. n. 



Length of an adult female 1 line. 



This spider is of ordinary form, and bears considerable general 

 resemblance to several other species. 



The cephalo-thorax has the profdo line slightly impressed 

 between the eyes, and the thoracic indentation ; and the lateral 

 marginal constriction, on each sido of the caput, is also very 

 slight. Its colour is yellow, margined with a fine black line, 

 that of the legs being of a rathor deeper, or more orange-brown 

 hue ; the sternum is slightly suffused with sooty-brown, and the 

 abdomen is also of a slightly sooty, yellow-brown colour, with various 

 Bpeckhngs and linos of a clearer hue, probably visible only in 

 spirit of wine. 



The eyes are rather closely grouped together in two transverse 

 rows, the hinder row curved, the convexity of the curve being 

 directed backwards,and the front row nearly straight. All, except- 

 ing those of the fore-central pair, are rather large, and nearly equal 

 in size; tho fore laterals being,apparently,tho largest. Thoseof the 

 posterior row are very nearly, if not quite, equally separated from 

 each other, the intervals being equal to about half of an eye's 

 diameter ; that between the two hind- centrals, is, perhaps, slightly 

 greater than the rest ; those of each lateral pair are placed a 

 little obliquely, and are almost, but not quite, contiguous to each 

 other ; those of the fore central pair aro difficult to distinguish 



