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hue, the femora of the first two pairs being brown-black, and 

 those of the last two rather paler ; on the upper sides of the 

 femora of the first pair are two, widely separated, strongish, 

 blunt-pointed spines. 



The palpi are yellow-brown, the digital joint darkest; tho 

 radial joint has its outer side produced into a strong obtuse 

 apophysis, and its under side has one less strong, but curved^ 

 and prominent. The digital joint is not very large ; its form is 

 very short, or round-oval, slightly pointed before. The palpal 

 organs are not very complex ; towards their hinder part are ono 

 or two strongish, prominent, pointed processes. 



The abdomen is similar in form to that of Oxyptila'Blackwattii, 

 It is of a reddish yellow-brown colour above, sparingly marked 

 With blackish-brown, and with some white markings at the fore 

 extremity, and on the lateral margins. The normal fusiform 

 marking along the middle of the fore-half is dull brownish- 

 yellow, with dark-brown, diffused margins ; and on the hindor 

 part are some transverse, brown, slightly-curved bars of which 

 the anterior one is the most strongly defined, and sometimes the 

 only one at all distinctly traceable. The clavate spine-liko 

 bristles on the upper side are not nearly so strong nor so clubbed 

 at the extremities as those of Oxyptila Blackwallii. 



The female is unknown to mo. 



Tour examples of the male have occurred at intervals since 

 1869 at Bloxworth, crawling on the walls of Bloxworth Church, 

 and Eectory, in the months of August and September; and 

 several examples were met with, running on the ground, on tho 

 7th of September, 1878. I have also received it from Mr. C 

 W. Dale, by whom it was found near Wareham. 



OXYPTILA TRUX. 



Thomistjs *rtjx, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Ircl., p. 84, pi. 

 iv., fig. 50. 

 The length of the male is about l-7th of an inch, and that 

 of the femalo l-6th, and sometimes rather more. 



