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narrower behind than in front. The upper surface of the caput 

 elopes, often rather strongly, forwards, with a slightly convex 

 profile. In some species the length of the second pair of logs 

 exceeds that of the third. The species of this genus, recordod as 

 European, are rather numerous ; four only of these, however, are 

 as yet known in Groat Britain, though several others, whoso 

 genuine position is doubtful, are at present included in Attus as 

 a kind of refuge for the destitute. Two species only have 

 hitherto been found in Dorset. 



ATTUS PUBESCENS. 



Aranea ptjbesoens, Fabr,, Syst. Ent., p. 438. 



Etjophrys ptjbesoens, C. L. Koch., Die Arachn., Bd. xiv., p. 9. 

 tab. 470, figs. 1278 and 1279. 



Saltiotjs sparstjs, Blaclw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 49, pi. 

 iii., fig. 25. 



„ terebrattjs, Cambr., Zoologist 1863, p. 8597. 



„ fratinoola, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 403. 



Attus ptjbesoens, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx., p. 333. 



The length of the male is 2 lines, and the female is rather 

 larger. 



The cephalo-thorax is dark brown, tinged with yellow, the 

 ocular area nearly black ; it is thickly clothed with grey and 

 greyish-yellow pubescence, mixed with reddish and other 

 hairs, and has several spots and markings on the upper side of 

 the caput formed by white hairs, giving it a variegated appear- 

 ance. The hairs forming the irides of the anterior row of eyes 

 are greyish. 



The legs are yellow-brown, more or less distinctly marked 

 and annulated with brownish-black. Those of the fourth pair 

 are considerably the largest, and the third pair are at least equal 



