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In this little spider the caput and thorax appear to be very 

 nearly of equal length, the latter perhaps slightly the longest. 

 The upper side of the caput is black, clothed with yellowish and 

 black bristly hairs, the black colour (in the male) prolonged 

 behind into a tapering deep brown band along the middle of the 

 thorax. The latoral margins are black, the sides and hinder part 

 yellow-brown, often tinged with reddish, and with a more or 

 less distinct, longitudinal, lateral, blackish band on each side, 

 enlarging behind, and generally becoming confluent with the 

 central tapering one. 



The legs are short, but there is not much difference in their 

 longth, which is, relatively, 4.3.1.2. They are of a pale 

 yellowish colour, distinctly annulated with black ; the annuli on 

 the first pair are generally more or less confluent, especially on 

 the femoral joints. 



The palpi are short, and of a yellow hue ; the digital joint 

 large, and the palpal organs prominent, but simple in structure. 

 The radial joint is fringed above with long hairs, and has a 

 small pointed apophysis at its extremity on the outer side. 



The sternum is yellow, margined with black. 



The abdomen is of a short-oval form, thickly clothed with 

 yellowish hairs ; its colour is blackish, or brownish-black above, 

 with some longitudinal, parallel, yellowish markings on the 

 middle of the fore-part, followed to the spinners by a series of 

 angular lines of the same colour. The sides are yellowish, 

 thickly marked with short black lines and markings ; and the 

 underside is also yellowish, with three more or less distinct 

 black-brown longitudinal bands. In the male the yellow 

 markings on the upper side are often more or less obsolete, the 

 whole being black, or nearly so. The female is usually paler, 

 and more distinctly marked than the male. 



This little spider is very active, and is not unfrequent in June 

 and July, on the sunny slopes near Pennsylvania Castle, Port- 

 land, hopping about among the short grass and herbage. I 

 have also found it on the Chesil Beach. It has a wide range in 

 England. I have received it from the neighbourhood of Glas- 



