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figured from were furnished to the artist by myself. I was at 

 that time ignorant of the distinction between the two species. 



SING A SANGUINE A. 



Singa sanouinea, C. L. Koch., Die Arachn., xi., p. 154, Tab. 



393, fig. 950. 

 Epeiex heeii, Blackw., Spid. Gt. Brit, and Irel., p. 366 (exclude 

 fig. 264, pi. xxvii.). 



The length of the male is very nearly l-6th of an inch, and 

 the female is somewhat larger. 



This spider is very nearly allied to Shiga pygmcea Sund.; the 

 whole of the dark colouring is, however, of a yellower hue. The 

 oephalo-thorax is of a reddish yellow-brown colour ; the legs 

 yellow, the femora of the first pair of those of the male, and a 

 portion of the sann part of the second pair, are of a blackish 

 hue, and the abdomen is of a dark reddish yellow-brown above, 

 and blackish underneath, ornamented with five yellowish white 

 longitudinal stripes of the same nature, and in the same position 

 (three above and two underneath) as those of S. pygmaa. 

 In the male a strong, spine-like, tapering bristle 

 issues from the fore extremity, on the upper side, of 

 the genual joints of the first pair of legs. The palpi of the 

 male are short, and each of the cubital and radial joints have, 

 a long, strong, curved bristle in front, directed forwards. The 

 digital joint is large, of a dark brown colour, and has a strong, 

 obtusely-pointed, curved process, directed outwards at its base. 

 The palpal organs are of large size, very prominent and 

 complex, with a strong, slightly curved, pointed process, directed 

 prominently downwards, and rather outwards, on the outer side 

 towards their extremity, where there is also a curved black 

 spine. 



Found, but very rarely, among heather on Bloxworth Heath. 

 I have also found it on Lyndhurst Heath, Hampshire, and have 

 received examples from Wokingham, where they were found by 



