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length of the adult male is no more than 1-2 1st of an inch, or not 

 much more than half a line. 



The cephalo-thorax is hroad, flattened, and nearly round, the 

 fore part broadly truncate, or squared off ; near each frontal 

 corner is a moderately elevated, tubercular eminence, surmounted 

 by a short, strong, pointed, black cusp or spine, slightly curved, 

 and its point directed inwards and forwards. 



The colour of the cephalo-thorax is a dull, semi-diaphanous, 

 olive-brown ; that of the legs and palpi pale yellow-brown ; the 

 articulations of the joints of the legs aro strongly tinged with 

 reddish orange-brown ; and the abdomen is glossy, of a dark 

 sooty-brown hue, and sparingly clothed with hairs. 



The palpi are long ; the cubital longer and stouter than the 

 radial joint ; which last has the uppor side of the fore extremity 

 produced into a kind of longish, tapering, nearly straight spur, and 

 in opposition to this is another more pointed one at the lower side. 

 Tho form of the extremity of this joint is difficult to describe 

 correctly, and has the appearance of being very different 

 from different points of view. The eyes of the fore and hind 

 central pairs form a quadrangle, broadest behind, between the 

 frontal cusps, and the lateral pairs are seated very obliquely at 

 the bases, in front, of the tubercles on which tho cusps stand. 



Except in wanting the frontal tubercles and cusps, and 

 being rather larger, the female resembles the male. 



Found not unfrequently, at Bloxworth Eectory, in April and 

 May, 1862 (but moro raroly since) upon iron railings ; in tho 

 angles formed by the uprights and rails of these, it spins an 

 irregular snare, and sits in it in an inverted position. In 1874 1 

 recoived this spider from tho neighbourhood of Paris, where it 

 was found by Mons. Eugono Simon. 



GENUS WALCKENAERA, Blaehv. 

 The numerous little spiders comprised in this gonus cannot be 



