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and those of the fore-central pair are on a strongish prominence. 

 Tho logs are rather long and moderately strong ; their relative 

 length being 1.2.4.3. ; they are of a yellow-brown colour, 

 annulated (but often very faintly) with dark brown. Tho spines 

 on thoso of the first and second pairs, in the male, are long, 

 especially on the tibial joints. 



The palpi (of the male) aro short ; tho cubital joint is promin- 

 ent in front, and has there two long, strong, tapering, projecting 

 bristles ; the outer side of the radial joint is protuberant, and 

 has two finer bristles on it. The digital joint is largo, and has 

 a dark coloured, curved process at its base, whose rather 

 enlarged extremity is directed forwards and outwards. The 

 palpal organs aro large and excessively protuberant ; they are 

 also very complex, with various prominent lobes and processes. 

 The abdomen is of a sub-triangular form, rounded in front, 

 and projecting (but not greatly) over the base of the cephalo- 

 thorax. It is thinly clothed with hairs, and its prevailing hue 

 is red-brown, mottled with yellowish ; two oblique yellow linos 

 cut off a deep, red-brown portion on each side of the fore- 

 extremity, and between the anterior ends of these dark patches 

 is a somewhat diamond-shaped, dark patch edged with yellow. 

 On tho hindor half is a more or less distinctly defined, broad, 

 dentated band, rather darker than the surrounding surface, and 

 its short, blunt, denticulations are marked with black or dark 

 red-brown and yellow. This band is sometimes obsolete, and 

 may be sometimes traced indistinctly also on the fore-half of the 

 abdomen. The sides are marked with some oblique, rod-brown 

 streaks, and the under sido is of a dark red-brown hue, with a 

 longitudinal, yellowish band on each side. 



The male is darkor coloured than the female, and its abdomen 

 is of a rather more oval form. 



This is not a rare spider on low trees and bushes in shrub- 

 beries and woods, in various localities in Dorsetshire. It is also 

 not unfrequent on iron railings on bright sunny mornings in 

 spring and early summer. Mr. Blackwall has found it in North 

 Wales, and I have received it from many parts of England. It 



