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lighter yellow-brown variety (common in Germany), but which I 

 have never met with yet in England. This variety is very diffi- 

 cult to distinguish, at first, from Xysticus cristatus. The central 

 dark marking on the cephalo-thorax is, however, always much 

 shorter than that of Xysticus cristatus, and is curvi-lateral, form- 

 ing the hinder half of a pointed-oval figure, the space bohind 

 this is white, or yellowish ; and its termination, just short of the 

 thoracic junction, is of a similar form. The dark central marking 

 is sometimes very dark (almost black), and distinctly defined, with 

 occasionally some yellowish marks on it ; at other times it is paler, 

 with some dark blotches upon it, but it nevor runs backwards in 

 a long, tapering, wedge-shape, as in Xysticus cristatus. The 

 legs are usually more distinctly marbled. The palpi are very 

 similar in genoral structure, but the anterior, prominent process 

 towards the base of the palpal organs differs in the very decided 

 T-shape it assumes. The upright portion of the T is shorter 

 and less bent than the corresponding part of that process in 

 Xysticus cristatus, and the top (or cross piece) is at right angles 

 to the stem on both sides, though the arm on one side is longer 

 and slenderer than the other. The posterior process, though 

 very similar in form to that of Xysticus cristatus, is larger in 

 proportion, and its pointed extremity is rather longer. The 

 abdomen is of a shorter-oval form, and, in the abdominal pattern, 

 the upper side, of our commonest variety, is black-brown ; the 

 dentated band is white, or yellowish-white, very distinctly dofined, 

 and seldom marked with dark spots or markings ; when these 

 are present they are few and minute. The sides are yellowish- 

 brown, spotted with white, often marked with slightly oblique, 

 indistinct lines of dark spots, which emanate from the margins 

 of the upper side. 



Another, less abundant, variety has the upper side of a much 

 lighter hue, being of a dull greyish olive-brown colour, marked 

 with irregular black spots on the outer margins, and on the 

 posterior sides of the angles of the dontated band, which is of a 

 greyer hue. The black marking behind the anterior angle on each 

 side of the dentated band is stronger than the rest, and gives the 



