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brownish-black, which is often continued backwards in a taper, 

 ing band on the thorax. The legs are of the same colour as the 

 cephalo-thoiax, slightly marked or spotted with blackish — more 

 distinctly in immature than in adult examples. The palpi of the 

 malo are short ; the cubital joint has a long, tapering bristle in 

 front, and the radial (which is stronger, but slightly, if at all, 

 longer than the cubital) has some hairs and bristles in front ; 

 the digital joint is of modorate size, of a regular, but short, oval 

 form, and the palpal organs are neither very prominent nor par- 

 ticularly complex ; at their extremity is a curved black spine. The 

 sternum is blackish-brown, with a central, wedge-shaped, yellow- 

 brown marking, whose point is directed backwards. The 

 abdomen is of a regular oval form, somewhat flattened or 

 depressed on the upper side, where the greater part is occupied 

 by a large leaf-like marking, traced by a sinuous, black, marginal 

 line, and its broadest end in front ; on each side of the fore- 

 extremity of the leaf is a largish, black, and, at times, rather 

 diffused patch, the rest of it is sometimes of a uniform silvery 

 white hue, with a central, branching, dusky line ; at other times 

 it is (particularly in males) more or less marked and speckled 

 with black, but leaving the middle of the fore part immaculate. 

 The sides and under side are dull silvery, tinged with yellowish, 

 and sometimes marked and speckled slightly with black — the 

 under side has a longitudinal, central, black-brown band, with a 

 yellowish-white marginal stripe on each side resolved into two 

 spots on either side of the base of the spinners. 



This spider is a very abundant one in most parts of England, 

 especially in tho south, and also in Scotland. Its habitat is in 

 the outdoor angles of buildings, and windows (both inside and 

 out), under coping stones of walls, and in tho sheltered corners 

 of woodden palings and other fences, as well as in verandahs and 

 greenhouses. When very young it is nearly black, with a 

 distinctly defined, yellow bifid marking on the fore part of the 

 abdomen. Though common everywhere, I have generally found 

 it most common at Weymouth. It is adult in summer and 

 throughout the early autumnal months. 



