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abdomen a very characteristic look, not at all unlikethatof the next 

 species — Xysticus sabulosus, Hahn. The female varies very much 

 in the generally darker or lighter shade of its colouring, but, 

 porhaps the most usual variety is very like that of the malo last 

 described. The female has also at the hinder extremity on each 

 side of the cephalo-thorax an almost always well denned spot, 

 breaking out of, and of the same colour as the central whitish 

 band. Tho central dark marking behind the eyes is seldom well 

 dofined in this sex, and often quite obsolete. Some examples 

 have the sides and fore part of the abdomen suffused with red- 

 brown. 



The only situation in which I have found this species, in any 

 abundance, is on furze bushes, when in bloom, growing on 

 tho outskirts of woods which border upon hoaths and commons 

 in the months of May and June. In such situations it is tolor- 

 ably abundant at Bloxworth and in the neighbourhood ; I have 

 also received it from Glanvilles "Wootton — from Mr. C. "W. Dale 

 — and have met with it in abundance near Oxford. It has beon 

 found also in other parts of England as well as in Scotland. 



XYSTICUS SABULOSUS. 



Tuomisus sabulostjs, Ealm., Die Arachn. I., p. 28, tab. viii., 

 fig. 4. 

 ,, „ Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 72, 



pi. iv., fig. 41. 



Thomisus rufopictus, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxxviii., p. 

 436. 



Adult malo length, 2£ lines ; female, 3 lines. 



In general appearanco this spider bears considerable r esomblance 

 to very pale varietios of Xysticus pini, Hahn. It is, however, 

 iifually a much larger spider. Tho sides of tho cephalo-thorax are 

 brown, varying in shade from pale yellow-brown to reddish and 

 dark brown, slightly peppered, as it usually is, with very fine grey 

 points, and tho margins are yellowish white. The central longi- 

 tudinal baud is broad, and greyish-white, the normal dark mark- 



