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ia adult in Juno and July, and will hardly be mistaken for any 

 other species, if its general reddish, yellow-brown hue, and the 

 dark shoulders of the abdomen are noted. A remarkable variety, 

 received from Scotland, was described (see synonym above) as a 

 distinct species, under the name of Epeira yoimgii. 



EPEIEA COENUTA. 



Aranetts cornutus, Clercle., Sv. Spindl., p. 39, pi. i., tab. 11. 

 Epeira apoolisa, Walch, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., 

 p. 325, pi. xxiii., fig. 237. 



This common spider varies a good doal in size, and also in the 

 extent and depth of colour of the markings on the abdomen. 



The male measures from 2£ to 4 lines in length, and the female 

 from 3J to 5£ lines. 



The form of the cephalo-thorax does not differ materially 

 from that of Epeira diademata, Clerck. ; it is of a reddish yellow- 

 brown colour, pretty thickly clothed with grey hairs. The legs 

 are moderately long, and tolerably strong ; their colour being 

 yellow-brown, with dark-brown annulations ; the spines are not 

 very strong nor long, excepting those on the tibice of the first 

 and second pairs, of the male, which are stronger and longer 

 than the rest. The palpi are short ; the cubital joint has two 

 long, slightly-curved bristles in front ; the radial joint ia con- 

 siderably produced on its outer side, and furnished with numer- 

 ous hairs; the digital joint is large, and has, at its base, a curved 

 process, whoso obtuse point is directed outwards. The palpal 

 organs are very largo, very prominent, and complex. Near their 

 base is a longish, projecting process, directed downwards, and a 

 little outwards, its extremity being split or bifid ; one of the 

 portions of the split part is much stronger than the other, rather 

 enlarged and rounded at its termination; the other portion 

 being pointed. 



Tho abdomon is largo, of a rather regular oval form, the fore 

 and hind oxtromities differing but little in their curve ; it projects 

 considerably over tho base of the cephalo-thorax, and a great por- 

 tion of tho upper side is occupied by a broad, longitudinal, taper- 



