170 



Found very rarely on underwood at Bloxworth, in June ; and 

 also near Lyndhurst, Hampshire. 



The female is rather larger, but resembles the male, excepting 

 in the absence of the elevation of the caput. 



WALCKENAERA FRONTATA. 



Savignia frontata, Blackw., Lond. and Edin. Phil. Mag., 3rd 

 series, Vol. iii., p. 105. 



Waickenaera peontata, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., 

 p. 317, pi. xxii., fig. 232. 



The length of the male is l-12th of an inch. 



This remarkable species may be easily recognized by the eleva- 

 tion on the caput being placed quite at tho extremity of the fore 

 part, and forming, in fact, a kind of sub-conical continuation of 

 it, directed rather forwards, and surmounted by a tuft of hairs. 

 The cephalo -thorax is of unusual length. Tho eyes of the hind 

 central pair are close together behind the base of the elevation ; 

 the lateral pairs are placed on each side of the fore part of 

 the normal portion of the caput, and the fore centrals are on the 

 front of the summit of the elevation ; these last are exceedingly 

 difficult to be seen, so much so that for many years it was sup- 

 posed by Mr. Blackwall to be a six-eyed spider. 



The palpus of the male has its radial stronger than the cubital 

 joint, and the fore extremity of the upper side of the former is 

 produced into a curved, tapering apophysis, which ends in a sharp 

 point directed outwards over the base of the digital joint. The 

 palpal organs are prominent and complex, but do not present any 

 very conspicuous processes. 



The colour of the cephalo-thorax is brownish-black, that of 

 the legs and palpi reddish-brown, and the abdomen is glossy 

 and black. 



The female resembles the male in colours, but is a little larger, 

 and shows no trace of the peculiar formation of the caput 

 observed in the other sex ; the fore-central eyes are also easily 

 seen, though smaller and darker than the rest. 



