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row (which is distinctly shorter than the second) are wider apart 

 from each othor than each is from the lateral eye on its side. 



The legs are strong, of a reddish-brown colour, marked and 

 annulated (but sometimes irregularly and sparingly) with black- 

 brown, those markings being much toned down hy the prevailing 

 grey pubescence. In the males the femora only are marked with 

 brown, those of the first pair, as well as the tibiae and the base of 

 the metatarsi, are hlack, the under sides of the tibia?, which are 

 rather incrassated, being thickly clothed with black hairs. 



The palpi (of the male) are of a dark colour ; the radial is 

 rather stronger than the cubital joint; the digital joint is largo 

 and the palpal organs aro neither very prominent nor very 

 complex. 



The abdomen of tho female has on the upper side a broadish, 

 central, tapering longitudinal band of a pale yellow-brown 

 colour, clothed with grey pubescence ; the normal marking on 

 its fore part is long, rather narrow, brownish-black, with blacker 

 spots on its margins, dilated past the middle, where its margins 

 are angularly prominent, the point of the angle directod obliquely 

 backwards ; its posterior extromity is truncated, the corners pro- 

 duced, and emitting, on each side, an oblique black line. To the 

 normal marking there succeeds a series of angular black lines, 

 whose extremities, on either side, end in a pale spot with a 

 strong, black, anterior margin. The remaining portions of the 

 upper side are of a brown colour, mixed with grey, and spotted 

 with black. Tho under part is yellow brown, clothed with 

 yellowish-grey pubescence. 



The abdomen of the male has the central longitudinal band, 

 in general, of a moro or less uniform grey, with strong, broad, 

 black margins, broken into spots on the hinder part ; from these 

 spots oblique rows of smaller black ones traverse the sides. 

 Occasionally, however, the normal marking and angular bars 

 may be traced. 



This spider is frequent on Bloxworth Heath, where both sexes 

 may be seen running in sunshine in the spring and summer 

 months. It is also found in other parts of England and in Scot- 



