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Tho legs are palo brownish-yellow, marblod and marked with 

 doep reddish-brows and white, mostly so on the upper sides of 

 the femora and genua, but only towards the upper extremity of 

 those of tho third and fourth pairs. The spines beneath the 

 metatarsi of the first two paiis are rather long and strong. 



The palpi are strong ; the humeral joint is deep brownish- 

 black ; the cubital and radial joints are reddish yellow-brown, 

 mottled with a dooper hue; the radial joint has its outer 

 extremity produced into a long, black, somewhat tapering, 

 sinuously curved apophysis, which is blunt-pointed, and directed 

 downwards ; and its under side has a strong one of a crescent or 

 bifid shape. Tho digital joint is rather large and of a brownish 

 colour ; tho palpal organs are compact and not very complex. 



The sternum is yellow-brown, mottled with white, and has a 

 marginal row of black blotches, with'a black streak (often of an 

 arrow-headed shape) running from tho hinder extremity to the 

 middle. These sternal markings are'characteristic, and usually 

 very distinct. 



The abdomen is very short, broad-oval, truncated before, 

 broader and rounded behind. The upper side is yellow-brown 

 marked and spotted with black -brown, and spotted with white 

 round the margins and on the sides, which last are also spotted 

 with blackish. Although the characteristic pattern is usually 

 indistinct, yet in some examples there is a tolerably well defined, 

 longitudinal, tapering, blunt-pointed marking on the fore half, 

 indicated by broken black-brown marginal spots and marks ; 

 and on the hinder half is a series of several transverse, very 

 slightly ourved, black-brown bars. 



The female is usually paler-coloured than the male, but is often 

 more regularly and distinctly marked. 



This spider occurs in spring and summer time among moss 

 and dead leaves, as well as at tho roots of coarse grass, and 

 other herbage, growing at the bases of trees at Bloxworth, but 

 is rather rare. I have also found it near Sherborne, and received 

 it from various other parts of England ; and Mr. Blackwall (I.e.) 

 records it both from Dorsetshire and Yorkshire. 



