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The caput is not raised above the level of the thorax, but the 

 ocular region is a little prominent. The colour of the cephalo- 

 thorax is yellow-brown. The logs are long (1.2.4.3.), 

 slender, of a paler and cloarer colour than the cephalo- 

 thorax, and usually tinged with red. The spines are tolerably 

 strong, long, and prominent. The palpi are rather short, and 

 similar in colour to the legs. The radial joint is stronger than 

 the cubital, and has a prominent process near its base on the 

 outer side, of a rather sharp pointed, conical form, furnished at 

 its point with two long bristles. The digital joint is large, and 

 has a strong lobe on the outer side. The palpal organs are 

 prominent and complex, with various conspicuous spines and 

 processes, the most noticeable of which is a large, somewhat 

 flattened, curved one beneath thoir base, and on the outer side. 



The eyes of the fore-central pair are separated by an interval 

 nearly equal to half an eye's diameter. The abdomen is of a 

 dull yellowish colour ; the upper side has a longitudinal series of 

 transverse, angular, black lines on the middle and hindor part ; 

 these lines are often obsolete, or more or less imperfect, and the 

 sides have some short, oblique, black markings forming an 

 irregular longitudinal band ; the under side also has some black 

 patches and markings, and there are some broken ones round the 

 base of tho spinners. The femalo resembles the male in colours 

 and markings ; tho gonital process is very long, strong, 

 somewhat cylindrical in its form, enlarging a little towards its 

 extremity, which is notched or cleft, and of a bright roddish 

 colour, the rest being dull yellow ; this process is directed back- 

 wards, and its inferior surfaco is furnished with long coarse 

 bristly hairs. 



This fine and very distinct species is rare at Bloxworth among 

 low plants in open places in woods and plantations in autumn. 

 It appears to be much more common in the North of England, 

 and has been also met with in Wales and Scotland. The male 

 palpi and the female genital process are exceedingly characteris- 

 tic, and with the colours and markings of the spider render it an 

 easily recognized spider. 



