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Found, but rarely, on Bloxworth Heath, where it sits among 

 the hoather bloom, and in the blossoms of such other flowers as 

 grow on heathy wastes. It is adult in Juno and July. I have 

 also found it on Lyndhurst Heath, and have rocoived it from tho 

 Heath district near Wokingham ; and no doubt it is generally 

 dispersed over similar localities throughout the South of Eng- 

 land. The Rev. C. W. Ponny, of Wellington College, who has 

 kindly sent it to mo from Wokingham, tells me that he finds 

 tho pink specimens on pink flowers, and tho yollower ones on 

 yollow flowers. I have, however, myeolf found both pink and 

 yollow 6pecimons on the pink blooms of the heather. (See 

 Introduction, p. xxx). 



GENUS MISUMENA, Latr. THOMISUS, Blackw. in part. 

 This genus is closoly allied to the forogoing (ThomimeJ. But 

 among other differences it may bo mentioned that the lateral 

 marginal constriction of tho caput is loss strong ; the cephalo- 

 thorax is rathor shorter and broader ; the caput has no conical 

 eminences at the fore cornors of the upper side (though the 

 latoral eyos boing seated on slightly divergent tubercles, those 

 parts have a somewhat sub-angular appearance), and the 

 abdomen, though in the females it is broader behind than in 

 front (in the male it is oval), is rounded at that part, and not 

 angular oithor before or behind. The clypeus also is scarcely 

 equal in height to half that of the facial space ; the eyes of the 

 hinder row are equidistant from each other, and the four central 

 ones form more nearly a square than in Thomisus. 



The spiders of this genus have similar habits to those of 

 Thomisus. Two species only have as yet been recorded in Britain, 

 and one of those is found in Dorsetshire. 



MISUMENA VATIA. 

 Aeaneus vatitts, Clerch., Sv. Spindl., p. 128, pi. vi., tab. 5. 

 TnoMisus citheus, Walclc, Bhchv., Spid. Groat Brit, andlrol., 

 p. 88, pi. iv., fig. 53. 

 The length of tho malo varios from 1J to 2 lines, and that of 

 tho female from 4 to 5 linos. 



