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an irregular surrounding band, broadest behind, and very dis- 

 tinctly defined on its outer edges. The sides aro yellowish 

 whito, the latter thinly streaked or spotted with black-brown, 

 and the under part is brown. 



The female is much paler colourod than the malo. Tho 

 central band on the cephalo-thorax is better denned, and tho 

 abdomen is marked very much like that of the male, (as above 

 described, when in spirits of wine), only of a lighter hue. 



This is by no moans a raro spider on low treos and bushes at 

 Bloxworth and in tho neighbourhood, and is adult in tho months 

 of May and June. It has also been found in many othor parts 

 of England and Wales. 



PHILODROMUS AUREOLUS. 



Auanetts atjreoltjs, Clerclc., Sv. Spindl., p. 133, pi. vi., tab. 9. 

 Puiloduomus atoeolus, Blachw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., 

 p. 99, pi. v., fig. 59. 



Tho malo measuro l-5th and tho female l-4th of an inch in 

 length. 



This spider is very similar to Philodromus dispar, Walck., in sizo 

 and form, excepting that in the malo the palpi are longer, the 

 digital joints not so large, and the abdomen rathor narrower. 

 The colours of the two are, however, totally dissimilar. 



The markings of tho present spider aro scarcely discernible in 

 tho living state, owing to the hairs with which it is clothed being 

 protty denso and reflecting a dull, rather greasy, metallic huo 

 of a greonish and yellowish nature. When in spirits of wine, 

 however, a tolerably distinct pattern comes out, not greatly 

 unliko that of Philodromus dispar. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a dull, reddish, yellow-brown colour 

 on the sides, with a broad, contral, longitudinal, brownish-yellow 

 band, constricted at the occiput ; within this band is a somewhat 

 wedge-shaped, reddish-brown marking, whose posterior extremity 

 is sometimes continued, as a single lino, to tho hinder part of 

 thorax ; but more commonly it does not reach the constriction, 



