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and prominent in front, and a strongish indentation runs back- 

 wards from each lateral pair of eyes. The cephalo-thorax is 

 also pretty thickly marked with roundish punctures on tho lateral 

 margins, as well as with rows of the same, converging to the 

 thoracic indentation. The sternum is also similarly punctured. 

 The legs and palpi are of a bright, warm, reddish colour, and the 

 abdomen is glossy black. Two apophyses project from in front 

 of the radial joint ; the upper one is strong, pointod, prominent, 

 and conspicuous ; the other is smaller, and less prominent. The 

 palpal organs are complex, and well developed. 



This very distinct spider occurs, but not very commonly, 

 among moss in damp places, and in swampy grounds among 

 coarse grass and water-weeds, on the heath, at Bloxworth and 

 in the neighbourhood. It has occurred also in Scotland, York- 

 shire, and North "Wales. 



WALCKENAERA BIFRONS. 



Walckenaeea bifeons, Blaehw., Spid. Groat Brit, and Irel., p_ 

 302, pi. xxi., fig. 218. 



The male measures less than 1 lino in length. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a deep brown colour, and the caput 

 is perpendicularly elevated into a large, roundish-topped 

 eminence, compressed on tho sides, and the summit divided by a 

 longitudinal groove or impression. The eyes are on the front 

 of the prominence, some little way below the summit, and the 

 lower part of the clypeus is very prominent. Tho legs and palpi 

 are yellowish-red, and the abdomen is brownish-black, and 

 glossy. Tho radial joint of the palpus is not nearly so long as 

 tho cubital, and the apophysis, at its outer extremity, is small, 

 and a little curved. Tho palpal organs are highly developed 

 and complex, and have a curved, black spino at their fore 

 extremity. 



A raro spider, found occasionally at Bloxworth, on low bushes, 

 in woods, in Juno and July, and received from North Wales and 

 Scotland. 



