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alternately red-brown, and white angular bars, ending just above 

 the spinners with a red-brown, elongate, triangular patch. The 

 sides are red-brown, palest along the middle, and ornamented 

 with three oblique, conspicuous rows of cream-white spots, 

 several spotsof ten become confluent, and form an elongated blotch 

 or marking. The under side is yellowish-white, speckled with 

 minute, red-brown spots, and marked with three longitudinal, 

 light reddish-brown bars. 



This handsome spider was found on Bloxworth Heath, but 

 very rarely, until the September, 1878, when it occurred there 

 in abundance ; Mr. C. W. Dale has also sent it to me from 

 Glanvilles Wootton. The only other recorded English localities 

 are Lyndhurstand Shirley Heaths, and at Wokingham; though, 

 no doubt, it occurs on all the heath districts of the South of Eng- 

 land. It has been sent to me from Scotland. 



I have not yet succeeded in finding the male in the adult 

 state ; most of the examples met with have been females, not 

 quite come to maturity. 



PHILODEOMUS FALLAX. 



Philodromusfallax, Sund.,Sv. Spindl.Beskr.,VetAkadHandl., 

 f. 1832, p. 226. 

 „ deletus, Cambr., Zool. for 1863, p. 8564. 



The female measures nearly Jth of an inch in length. 



This spider somewhat resembles the foregoing in the character 

 of its markings, but may be distinguished easily by its broader, 

 flatter form, and pale, dull greyish straw-yellow colour. The 

 abdomen also projects more over the base of the cephalo-thorax. 

 The spider has, in fact, a washed-out appearance, as though 

 bleached by the sun. 



The cephalo-thorax has a short, longitudinal, brown band, on 

 each side of the thoracic portion, strongly emarginate on the 

 outer edge, the intervals between the prominent points being of a 

 whitish hue. 



The central, longitudinal, pale brown marking, on the fore part 



