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black spine at their extremity. The oyes are in the usual 

 position, and behind each lateral pair is a small longitudinal 

 indentation. 



The female is slightly larger than the male, which it resembles 

 in colour, but wants the elevation on the caput, this part being 

 meroly a little more convex than usual. 



Found, in some seasons, abundantly, during May and June, on 

 furze bushes when in bloom, in sheltered places on heaths border- 

 ing on the woodlands at Bloxworth, and in other similar localities 

 in Dorsetshire as well as in Hampshire. 



WALCKENAERA ALTIFRONS. 



Walokenaera altifrons, Cambr., Zoologist 1863, p. 8593, and 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, pi. xxviii., p. 453, pi, 

 xxxv., No. 33. 



The male measures 1-1 5th of an inch in length. 



The elevation on the caput is high, but (owing to the greater 

 height of the normal portion) not quite equal to half the whole 

 height of the facial space ; it has, when looked at in profile, a some- 

 what sub-conical form, rising from the whole area of the caput ; 

 but, looked at from in front, the summit (on the highest part of 

 which the hind-lateral pair of eyes are seated) is broader than 

 the baso ; behind each lateral pair of eyes is a strong, horizontal 

 indentation, and the frontal slope of both the elevated part and 

 the clypeus forms one pretty even line, broken by a sbght 

 prominence at the fore-central eyes. 



The palpus of the male is moderately long ; the radial is 

 about half the length of the cubital joint, and has its fore 

 extremity on the upper side produced into two apophyses, the 

 inner one of which is much the largest and strongest, and ends 

 in a fine point ; both are directed obliquely outwards. 



The colour of the cephalo-thorax is blackish-brown ; that of 

 the legs and palpi are orange-yellow, the latter rather the palest; 

 and the abdomen is black. 



