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arms ; in front of this is often a broad transverse yellowish 

 band, with a short prominence running from the middle forwards, 

 also indicated by a yellowish marginal line. In some examples 

 thoso markings are very clear and distinct, but in the greater 

 number they are not so. The yellow portions are usually 

 rendered more conspicuous by whitish hairs. In some examples 

 the pattern on the central band consist simply of a longitudinal 

 black marking edgod with yellowish, and pointed at its 

 hinder extromity ; and on each side of it, as it runs backwards, 

 are short transverse black bars edged with yellowish on their 

 fore margins. The sides are paler than the upper part, clothed 

 with whitish hairs, and marked with some short indistinct, 

 oblique, dark stripes. The undor side is yellowish-brown, 

 mottled and streaked with dark brown, and there is also a broad, 

 longitudinal, central, black band, with a whitish-yellow curved 

 marking on each side, whose hinder part is much dilated. 



This is not a rare spider on Bloxworth Heath, where it spins 

 its snare among heather and low-growing furze, connecting with 

 it, by a silken line, its slightly dome-shapod retreat, which is 

 constructed at a little distance under the sheltor of a furze shoot 

 or heather twig- When on the look-out for its prey the fomale 

 may be found sitting in the middle of her snare ; this seems to 

 bo mostly the case until she has attained maturity, and then 

 she is commonly to be found, at least by day, in her nest. 



Epeira sollers is also found in other parts of Dorsetshire, as 

 well as in many parts of England and Scotland, 



