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at its extremity on the outer side, a small pointed apophysis. 

 The digital joint is of moderate size, and of a brownish colour. 

 The palpal organs are prominent at the base, but of simple 

 structure. 



The abdomen is of a short-oval form, projecting well over the 

 base of the cephalo-thorax, densely clothed with reddish-brown, 

 black, and white hairs ; the upper side is of a more or less deop 

 brown or blackish hue, with a longitudinal central white line in 

 front, followed by a series of angular whitisli bars ; and on each 

 side, a little behind the middle, is a large conspicuous roundish 

 white spot or blotch. The sides are white, and tho under part 

 greyish yellow. 



The sexes resemble each other in their general colour and 

 pattern ; but tho males are the most distinctly marked, and 

 darkest in the dark portions. Tho two whito blotches, also, on the 

 abdomen of the male are very distinct ; while in the females 

 the angular bars are more distinct than in the male. 



This exceedingly active and pretty little spider is not uncommon 

 in May and Juno on the dry, sandy, gravolly parts of Bloxworth 

 Heath. I have also met with it on the sand-hills near Studland. 

 Its leaps are, compared to its size, of extraordinary length — 

 often exceeding a space of ten inchos. No doubt the length 

 of its hinder legs enables it to cover this largo distance. 



Its colours are admirably adapted for concealment among the 

 small white particles of stone which abound on the darker soil of 

 the sandy heath, where it occurs ; but the two largo white spots 

 on tho nearly black abdomen of the male render it conspicuous 

 to the collector's eye. The only way to capture it without injury 

 is either with a hoop-not, guiding or driving it in with one 

 hand while the net is held in the other, or else to cover it 

 dexterously with an empty tube, into the upper part of which it 

 may be soon driven, and thence transferred to the spirit-bottle, 

 as recommended in the "Introduction." (p. xxxix.) 



I met with a single example of this spider in Lancashire 

 many years ago, and moio recently it has been found in Franco 



