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This is a rare spider, but it is found occasionally in the months 

 of May, June and July, among low plants and herbage of 

 different kinds, in open places in woods at Bloxworth, and in 

 the neighbourhood. I have received it from Berwickshire! 

 and have found it at Drayton Beauchamp, near Tring, as well 

 as near Oxford. Mr. Meade (of Bradford, Yorkshire) has also 

 met with it at Newton Purcell, Oxfordshire. 



GENUS ZILLA, C. L. Koch. EPEIRA, Blackw. in part. 



The cephalo-thorax of Zilla does not differ much from that of 

 Cfrcidia in its form, though it is perhaps rather broader behind. 

 The anterior row of eyes is about equal in its curve with the 

 posterior row, and the ocular area is but slightly prominent in 

 front. The legs are tolerably long, not very strong, and their 

 relative length is 1.2.4.3., those of the first pair being consider- 

 ably the longest, especially in the males. The maxillae are very 

 short, broadest and rounded at their extremities, and the labium 

 is semi-circular. The palpi of the male vary groatly in length 

 in different spocies ; the digital joint is not generally large, nor 

 the palpal organs very large or complex. The abdomen is of a 

 regular oval form, but somewhat flattish on the upper side, and 

 projects well over the base of the cephalo-thorax. 



Two species only have as yet been recorded as British, and 

 both of them are abundant in Dorsetshire. The spiders of this 

 genus form a tubular silken retroat near their orbicular snare. 



ZILLA X-NOTATA. 



Aeaneus liteka-x-notatus, Clcrck., Sv. SpindL p. 46, pi. ii., 



tab. 5. 

 Epeira similis, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 337, pi. 

 xxv., fig. 244. 

 This spider varies considerably in size. The male measures 

 from \\ to 2\ lines, and the female from 3J to 4f lines. 



The cephalo-thorax is yellowish, strongly margined with black, 

 the greater part of the caput suffused, more or less deeply, with 



