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localities in Dorsetshire. It seems to be also generally distri- 

 buted in England, North Wales, and Scotland. 



PACHYGNATHA LISTEEI. 



Pachygnatha listebi, Stcnd., Yet. Akad, Handl., 1829, p. 210. 

 „ „ Blachw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel. p. 



320, pi. xxii., fig. 234. 



This spider bears a strong general r3semblance to Pachygnatha 

 Clerckii in its form and structure, but is much more brightly 

 coloured, and also smaller. The adult male measures about 

 1 -7th of an inch in length. The cephalo -thorax is bright red 

 brown with a longitudinal, central black band, and a very broken, 

 black, submarginal bar on each side. The legs and palpi are 

 yellowish ; and the abdomen has, on the upper side, a very bi oad, 

 dark red-brown, central, longitudinal band, marked with some 

 black markings, as well as some ill-defined white angular mark- 

 ings, along the middle ; and on each side of the abdomen is a 

 broad, irregular, yellowish band whose inner margin is nearly 

 White. The palpi of the male are very like those Pachygnatha 

 Clerckii. 



The female is iarger than the male, of a lighter hue, but is, 

 if anything, more distinct in the markings on tho upper side of 

 the abdomen. 



Occasionally abundant, towards the end of the summer, among 

 underwood at Bloxworth and in the neighbourhood. Mr. C. W. 

 Dale has met with it at Glanville's "Wootton ; it occurs also in 

 other parts of England, and in North "Wales. 



PACHYGNATHA DEGEERII. 



Pachynatha Degeerii, Sund., Vet. Akad. Handl., 1829, p. 211, 

 and 1832 p. 259. 

 „ „ Blachw, Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 321, 



pi. xxii., fig. 235. 

 This pretty species may be at once distinguished from the two 



