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four deep red-brown or blackish spots, forming a large quad- 

 rangular figure which encloses almost all of the upper side. 

 These spots are placed close to the inner edge of the marginal 

 white border ; but upon the dark part of the upper side. 



This is a rare spider in Dorsetshire, but I have occasionally 

 found it among heather on Bloxworth Heath, in the months of 

 June and July. I have also met with it near Lyndhurst, and 

 it has been sent to me from several parts of Scotland. 



GENUS CERCIDIA, Thorell. EPEIRA, Blackw. in part. 



In Cercidia the cephalo-thorax is rather longer, less convex 

 above, and narrower behind than that of Singa. The oyos are 

 very similar in their position, to those of that genus, excepting that 

 the ocular region is more prominent, the hinder row of oyos more 

 strongly curved, and the anterior one nearly straight. The legs 

 are rather short, tolerably strong, and their relative length is 

 4.1.2.3. The spines are short and slender. The palpi are very 

 short, the digital joint large, the palpal organs of great size and 

 moderately complex. The abdomen is rather depressed, and of 

 a narrow oval form, slightly pointed in front, and projecting 

 considerably over the base of the cephalo-thorax ; its uppor 

 integument is glossy and of a stout, leathery, or coriaceous nature. 



One species only has been yet described as British, and that 

 one has been found in Dorsetshire, as well as in other parts of 

 England, and in Scotland. 



CERCIDIA PROMINENS. 



Sinoa proMinens, Westr., Aran. Suoc., p. 63, 



Epeira bella, Meade., Blackw., Spid. Great Brit., p. 343, pi. xxv., 

 fig. 248. 



The length of the male is 2 lines, and the femalo is a little 

 larger. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a brownish-red colour, tinged with 

 yellow ; the sides have a broad, dark, red-brown, longitudinal 

 band near the lateral margins, and there is a strong furcate 



