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sometimos a slight reddish tinge, the extremities of the joints 

 and the upper sides of the femora of the first and second pairs 

 being dark brown. The palpi (of the male) are short, the 

 cubital joint has two very long, strong, projecting bristles at its 

 extremity in front, and the radial joint is groatly produced both 

 on the outer and inner sides ; the digital joint is of moderate 

 size, with a strong, curved process at its base, whose point is 

 directod forwards and outwards. 



The palpal organs are very prominent, but not very complex, and 

 (like many others of this genus) are directed outwards. 



The stornum is black. The abdomen is oval, slightly pointed 

 behind, and projects considerably over the base of the cephalo- 

 thorax. A longitudinal yellow band, very strongly dentated at tho 

 fore part, but slightly so, on the hinder part, and tapering to 

 the spinners, occupies a considerable portion of the upper side ; 

 this band has a distinctly defined, dentated, black margin 

 on each side, as well as a loss well-defined, longitudinal, 

 central, dusky, yellowish-brown, tapering marking which is 

 often dentated something like the yellow band 

 itself. Outside of this is a broad, yellow-brown (or 

 sometimes red-brown) band, and below this, on the sides, there 

 are alternate, oblique streaks of black, white, and yellow-brown. 

 There is some variety in these streaks, the black ones often run- 

 ning into each other and farming a kind of irregular, longitu- 

 dinal marking. The under side is black, with two longitudinal, 

 yellowish-white stripes, one on each side, followed by two spots 

 of tho same colour on each side of tho spinners. A prominent ; 

 black, tapering, obtusely-pointed, curved, process dirocted baok- 

 wards is connected with the genital aperture. 



This beautiful Ep'eira is thinly dispersed over the heaths at 

 Bloxworth, and in the neighbourhood ; and I have met with it 

 in abundance at Lulworth, near the seaside. It spins its snare 

 among heather, or rushes, by the sides of paths and roads, and 

 in other waste places ; and it is adult in the months of August 

 and September, 



