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upperpart,isanotherband, narrower and paler than tho central one ; 

 and a little way from the hinder extremity, on each side, is also a 

 small, deep rod-brown spot. A pretty variety occurs occasion- 

 ally, in which the central hand has its edges spotted with a line 

 of small, deep, rodbrown spots, and on each side of it are two or 

 three other longitudinal lines of similar spots. 



The female resembles the male in colours and markings. 



Not rare at Bloxworth and the neighbourhood among sedge, 

 grass, and rushes in marshy spots. I have also met with it 

 frequently in Lancashire, and have received it from Norfolk and 

 Cambridgeshire, as well as from Scotland. 



GENUS MICROMMATA, Latr. SPARASSUS, Walch, in 

 part., and Blackw., in part. 



Cephalo-thorax, longer than broad, and strongly constricted on 

 the lateral margins of the ca put. 



Maxilla, moderately long, strong, straight, and rather rounded 

 at their extremities. 



Labium, short, semicircular. 



Legs, tolerably long, rather strong, armed with longish spines. 

 Their relative length is 4. 2. 1. 3. The tarsi and metatarsi are 

 furnished underneath with a strong scopula, as well a compact 

 claw-tuft at the extremity of tho former. 



Eyes, small, placed on minute, separate tubercles, forming a 

 regular sector of a circle. The convexity of tho curve in both 

 rows is directed away from each other. The fore-laterals are 

 rathor larger than the fore-centrals, the intervals being equal. 

 The interval between the hind-centrals is greater than that 

 between each and the hind-lateral eye next to it. 



It will be easily seen from the above characters that this 

 genus departs considerably from the foregoing genera of the family 

 Thomisides, differing from them all, not only in the relative length of 

 the legs and the curve of the hinder row of eyes, but in the form of 

 the maxillae, which in all the other genera are rather long, 

 narrow, and inclined, more or less strongly, towards the Labium, 

 Which last also, in them, is somewhat pointed at its apex. The 



