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is strongest, prominent at its fore extremity on the upper side, 

 and furnished with several long black bristles at its base. The 

 digital joint is oval, -with a long, conical, horn-like process at its 

 base. The end of this process extends backwards to the 

 extremity of the cubital joint, and terminates with several strong 

 black bristles bent backwards. Palpal organs prominent and 

 complex. Abdomen dark dull brown. 



Allied to N. conigera, Cambr. (p. 132), but easily distinguished 

 by the great length of the horn-like process on the digital joint. 



A single example of this exceedingly distinct and remarkable 

 spider, was found by Mr. Blackwall among moss in a wood on 

 Gallt y Ehyg, near Llanrwst, in the autumn of 1854 ; another, 

 also an adult male, among coarso grass and rushes in a swamp 

 near Bloxworth by my son, Robert Jocelyn, on the 28th April, 

 1879 ; and two others among moss in the same neighbourhood in 

 October, 1879, and April, 1880. 



NERIENE EEPROBA. 



Neriene uetooba, Cambr., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1879, ser. 

 5, vol. 4, p. 126, pi. xii., fig. 2. 



Length of the adult male very nearly 1£ lines. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a dusky yellow-brown colour marked 

 with converging lateral indistinct markings of a deeper hue ; its 

 convexity is moderate ; the lateral marginal compression at the 

 caput scarcely visible, and the profile line forms a gradual and 

 pretty even curve from the hinder extremity to the eyes. The 

 height of the clypeus slightly exceeds half that of the facial 

 Bpace. 



The eyes are in the usual position, placed on black tubercular 

 spots, and form an area whose transverse measurement is about 

 double that of tho longitudinal diameter. They are of moderate 

 size and do not differ groatly from each other in that respect ; 

 and the curves (opposite to each other) of the two rows (of 

 which the anterior is the shortest) are as nearly possible equal. 

 The eyos of the hind-central pair are separated by an intorval of 



