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Tho palpi (of the male) aro strong and of moderate length ; 

 thoir colour is yellow-brown, the digital joint doop brown; the 

 radial is rather strongor than the cubital joint, and the digital is 

 rather large. The palpal organs are not very complex, but have, 

 among others, a strongish, prominent corneous process on the 

 outer side. 



Tho anterior row of eyes is distinctly shorter than the second 

 row, and its eyes are all very small, apparently equal (or very 

 nearly so) in size, and separated by equal intervals. 



The abdomen has a broad, central, longitudinal, tapering 

 yellow-brown band, clothed with yellowish-grey hairs. The 

 normal marking at the fore extremity of this band is brown, and 

 of largish size; its margins are black, and it terminates in a 

 sharp point ; the broadest part is a little past the middle, where 

 it is subangularly prominent ; on either side of the fore half of 

 the central band is a somowhat dirfusod black band continued 

 backwards by a succession of black and pale spots, representing 

 tho terminations of tho ordinary angular or curved bars, which 

 are of a pale huo, but very nearly obsolete in most instances ; 

 from somo of the black spots just mentioned, oblique lines of 

 smaller ones traverse the sides, which are of a brownish hue, and 

 (with the under side, which is yollowish-brown) are clothed with 

 yellowish-grey hairs. 



The sexes do not diffor except in size and in the points noted 

 above. Varieties occur (of both sexes), in which the central 

 abdominal band and its anterior normal marking are much moro 

 distinct than in others, the band being of a bright yellow-brown, 

 and the point of the marking drawn out backwards into a fine 

 line. 



This spidor is found, but not very commonly, at Bloxworth, 

 and in various other parts of the county. The males run in 

 sunshine, but the females are generally found among herbage or 

 dibris of various kinds in woods, on hoaths, waste grounds, and 

 commons, and in hedgerows. It appears to be generally dis- 

 tributed throughout England, Scotland, and Wales, and is adult 

 in May and June. 



