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clearly, but are apparently contiguous to each other, and are 

 separated from the fore laterals by only a vory small 

 interval. The height of the clypeus is less than half that of the 

 facial space, but is groator than the diameter of one of the foro 

 lateral eyes. 



The legs are moderate in length (4. 1. 2. 3.), rather strong, 

 especially the femoral joints, and are furnished sparingly with 

 hairs, and with a few fine, prominent, spine-like bristles on the 

 outer sides of the tibiae. Tho palpi are short, similar in colour 

 to the legs, and aro also furnished with a fow strong, spine-like 

 bristles. The falces are rather short, tolerably powerful, nearly 

 vertical, armed with a few small teeth,and like the cephalo-thorax 

 in colour. 



The abdomen is of an elongate-oval, somewhat cylindric, form* 

 and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax. The genital 

 aperture is large, of very characteristic form, and placed at the 

 hinder margin of a largo, roundish convexity. 



This spider is a striking instance of the difficulty of assigning 

 the true genoric affinity of many of the small spiders at present 

 included in the genus Neri&ne ; it has a decidedly Drassid appear- 

 ance, but is yet removed far from that family by the possession 

 of three terminal tarsal claws, and tho absence of any claw at the 

 end of the female palpus. It is also, not remotely, allied to some 

 of the spiders at present included in the gonus Linypkia, such as 

 Linypkia ollonga Carnbr., and Zinyphia incerta, ibid. ; but it may 

 be distinguished by the larger size of the eyes, which are seated 

 upon black tubercular spots. 



The only example I have seen, as yet, is one found in the 

 autumn of 1878, near Sherborne, by my nephew (Frederick P. 

 Cambridgo). 



NERIENE BICUSPIS. 



Neeiene bicuspis, Cambr., Zoologist 18G3, p. 8588, and Trans. 

 Linn Soc. xxviii., p. 451, pi. 35, No. 26. 

 This is one of tho most remarkablo species of tho genus. The 



