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although, bearing a strong resemblance to those of that species, 

 are rather different in the form of the larger limb of the radial 

 apophysis ; in the present spider this is very broad and dilated 

 at the extremity, while in Philodromus lineatipes, it is, although 

 obtuse, yet somewhat pointed. In the marking of the legs the 

 two spiders bear closo resemblance to each other. 



A single female found at Bloxworth, several years ago, was, 

 like the last, overlooked at the time of capture. Adults of both 

 sexes have been sent to me from France. 



A full description of Philodromus lineatipes will be found in the 

 Appendix, among those British spiders not yet found in Dorset- 

 shire. 



PHILODROMUS ELEGANS. 



Philodromt/s elegans, Blachw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 

 94, pi. v., fig. 57. 



The female measures Jth of an inch, or 3 lines, in length. 



The general appearance of this spider is much like that of an 

 unusually distinctly-marked and handsome example of Philo- 

 dromus aureolus. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a pale yellowish colour. The sides 

 have each a broad, longitudinal, dark yellowish red-brown 

 band, leaving a narrow marginal, and a broad central, yellowish 

 one ; the latter is constricted at the occiput, and bisected longi- 

 tudinally, by a red-brown stripe, dilated in the middle and 

 narrowest in front. 



The legs are long, moderately strong, and of a yellowish-brown 

 colour, annulated with redbrown. 



The abdomen is indented in the middle of its fore margin, 

 and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax. It has a 

 broad, but not well denned, brownish-yellow, tapering band 

 along the middle of the upper side ; on the fore half of this band 

 is an elongated red-brown marking, edged with deeper red-brown, 

 broadest, and with an angular point on each side, near the middle, 

 and terminating in a fine point more than half way towards the 

 ■pinnerB ; on the hinder part of the abdomen is a series of short, 



