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pointed band, of a deeper green colour, along the middle of the 

 fore half. The genital aperture is large, and of a glossy, dark 

 (nearly black) hue. 



This spider, which is porhaps the most showy of all our larger 

 indigenous species, is found, but not commonly, in woods at 

 Bloxworth, and in the neighbourhood ; it is usually met with 

 running in bright sunshine, among plants and rough herbage in 

 the more open spots. The adult male, with the contrast of its 

 green, yellow, and scarlet colours, is at all times a very con- 

 spicuous object. The female, being wholly green, is not easily 

 detected until she moves. 



In the immature state the male usually resembles the female 

 in colours, but a variety occasionally occurs in which the 

 longitudinal, central abdominal band is edged with small scarlet 

 spots, and the cephalo-thorax, also, is similarly ornamented. 

 This variety has been recorded by Mr. Blackwall as Sparassus 

 ornatus, Walck., a spider which (if it be distinct from Micrommata 

 virescens) has not yet been found in England. The typical form 

 is found also in various other parts of England, but the variety 

 ornatus, Blackw., I have only myself met with at Drayton 

 Beauchamp, near Tring, in Buckinghamshire. 



