APPENDIX A. 



Descriptions of some Additional Species of Spiders 

 found in Dorsetshire since the publication of the 

 First Part of this Work. 



FAMILY DEASSIDES. 



GENUS GNAPHOSA, Latr. 

 GNAPHOSA LUGUBRIS. 



Pytiionissa luoubris, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn. vi., p. 60, Taf. 



cxcv., fig. 473, and L. Koch, Die Arachn. 



Faun, der Drassiden, p. 8, tab. 1, fig. 4. 

 GNArnosA lugtjbris, C. L. Koch, Camhr., Ann. and Mag. N.H. 



85, vol. iv., 1879, p. 201. 

 Length of an adult female 5 -J lines. 



This spider is larger than Gnapho&a anglica, Cambr. (p. 13), 

 but resembles it very closoly in general appearance, colours, and 

 markings ; the \/-6hapod marking, however, on the cephalo- 

 thorax is stronger and more distinct. The metatarsi of the 

 fourth pair of legs are also distinctly longer in proportion, and 

 the form of the genital aperture is different. In Gnaphosa anglica 

 the anterior margin extends backwards, in a strong process, over 

 the greater portion of the length of the aperture, while a corres- 

 ponding process in the present spider does not reach half-way 



