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TIIANATUS HIRSUTUS. 



Philodromus hirsutus, Cambr., Zool. 1863, p. 8565. 



Thanatus hibsutus, Ibid, AnnandMag., N. H., February, 1878, 

 p. 123, and Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 438. 



Tho length of the female is about 2 lines, and that of the male 

 rather more than 1£. 



The colour of the eephalo-thorax is a dull, brownish-yellow, 

 with three longitudinal, blackish-brown bands. The middle one 

 begins at (and includes) the hind-central pair of eyes, tapering 

 to a point at the hinder extremit)'. The lateral bands are 

 broader, and have a marginal, yellowish one of nearly equal 

 broadth. The surface of the eephalo-thorax is thinly furnished 

 with long, strongish, nearly erect bristles. 



The legs are moderately long, rather robust, a little paler in 

 colour than the eephalo-thorax, and furnished with bristly hairs 

 and fine spines ; beneath the tarsi and metatarsi is a scapula, or 

 brush-like arrangement of papillto-form hairs. 



The abdomen is oval, truncated before, and blunt-pointed 

 behind. It is of a whiter-yellowish hue than the eephalo-thorax, 

 and, like that part, has the surface f urnished with long, erect, 

 black bristles. On the upper side are five dark-brown, longi- 

 tudinal stripes, or narrow bands, mostly formed by more or 

 loss confluent spots and blotches. The central band is of a much 

 elongated or drawn-out, diamond shape, and terminates in a 

 fine point, half-way to the spinners, followed, however, by one 

 or two isolated dark-brown spots. Beginning on either side 

 of the end of the central band are two others, which converge 

 to a point above the spinners ; and on each side of the anterior 

 margin of the abdomen is another which forms a more or less 

 strongly marked and continuous border to the uper side. 



On the under side are three longitudinal, brown bands, of 

 which the laterals are much the blackest, and converge towards the 

 spinners, where they are connected by a transverse stripe of the 

 same colour. 



The male differs from the female, injbeing of a much darker 



