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over its length. The scopula beneath the tarsi and metatarsi of 

 the first two pairs of legs is also denser and more compact than 

 in Gnaphosa anglica. 



The example on which the above notes have been made was 

 found, with nnmorous immature individuals of both sexes, under 

 old turves on Bloxworth Heath, about the middle of Soptember 

 1878. The immature males were, some of them, then quite 

 equal in size to the female above described, and the digital joints 

 were excessively tumid, showing a near approach to maturity.* 

 All the adult examples I have hitherto met with of Onaphosa 

 anglica have been found in the months of May and June. 



GNAPHOSA SUSPECTA. 



Gnaphosa stjspeota, Cambr., Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1879, Vol. 

 iv., s. 5, p. 191. 



Length of an immature female 2 lines. 



This spider is of a rather flatter form than Gnaphosa anglica. 

 The legs are stronger, and the cephalo-thorax is devoid of the 

 strong, dark, \/-shaped marking characteristic of that species. 



The colour of the cephalo-thorax is pale yellow-brown, thickly 

 mottled and suffused with a deeper hue, and edged with a brown- 

 black marginal line. 



The legs are pale yellow-brown, more or less suffused with a 

 darker colour. There are no spines, apparently, on those of the 

 first two pairs, excepting two of a strong bristly nature on the 

 upper sides of the femora. All the tibiee, tarsi, and metatarsi 

 are furnished above with a few long, erect, slender hairs. 



* Since tho above description of the female was in the press, I have (May 

 21st, 1880) found an adult male of this fine spider under a piece of turf on 

 Bloxworth Heath. Its length is 4| lines, and it is of a darkor hue than any 

 of the females I have as yet mot with, tho abdomen being jet blaok. The 

 palpi, independently of the larger size of the spider, will serve to distin- 

 guish it readily from Gnaphosa anglica, Cambr. ; the radial joint is very 

 Bhort and strong, obtusely prominent undomeath at its fore extremity, and 

 has its extremity on the outer side produced into a short, rapidly tapering, 

 sharp-pointed apophysis, whose length is less than that of the joint itself, 

 and its joint adheres closely to the digital joint as to render it not easily 

 observed. In Gnaphosa anglica this apophysis is much longer (longer, in 

 faot, than the joint itself), and more prominent. Tho palpal organs, also, 

 aro more prominent than in Gnaphosa anglica. 



