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from each other by a very small interval ; being also about 

 equally distant from the fore-laterals. 



Legs strong, but not very long; relative length 4.1.2.3 ; rather 

 palor in colour than the cephalo-thorax, and furnished with a 

 few spinos, chiefly on the tibia) and metatarsi of the third and 

 fourth pairs of legs. 



Falces moderately long, tolerably strong, and rather darker in 

 hue than the legs. 



Maxillee strong, of ordinary form ; curved and inclined towards 

 the labium, but with a very slight impression across the middle ; 

 their colour darker than that of the cephalo-thorax. Labium 

 oblong-oval, longer than broad, its apex rather rounded, and 

 somewhat darker than the maxilla). 



Abdomen elongate-oval, rather truncate before ; and of a dull 

 sooty brown colour, with a somewhat deeper longitudinal central 

 stripe on the fore half of the upper side; on each side of this are 

 faintly visible the usual three elongate pale spots in a curved 

 longitudinal line, followed by a very faint indication of the ordin- 

 ary transvorse angular lines. The under side is paler than the 

 upper, and the whole is clothed with very short pale hairs. The 

 genital aperture is tolerably large, of characteristic and distinc- 

 tive form, with a red-brown corneous margin ; and immediately 

 behind it are two red-brown, shining, circular, convex spots close 

 to each other in a transverse bine. The whole is surrounded by 

 coarse, dark converging hairs. 



An adult and two immature females of this species were found 

 at the roots of coarse grass and herbage on the Weymouth side 

 of the Ohesil Beach, near the Portland station, on the 6th of 

 June, 1879. It is allied to Drassus criminalis, Cambr., and 

 Drassus infuscatus, Westr., but is very much smaller, and differs 

 totally in the form of the genital aperture, as well as in the 

 relative position of the eyes, though resembling those spiders 

 a good deal in general form and colouring. 



