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paler and clearer in colour than the cephalo-thorax, furnished 

 with hairs, and a few slender erect bristles. 



The palpi are similar in colour to the legs, rather short and 

 slender. The cubital joint is short and bent downwards ; the 

 radial is still shorter, but has its fore extiemity prominently 

 produced into a rather long, strong, tapering apophysis, whose 

 point, when looked at in profile, is slightly hooked ; about the 

 middle of the outer side of this apophysis is a prominent, some- 

 what toothlike projection, and from the inner side of the joint 

 there projects another small, pointed, and slightly curved 

 apophysis. The digital joint is small, with a lobe on its outer 

 side. The palpal organs are well developed, and moderatoly 

 complex ; at thtir base on the outer side is a largo, somewhat 

 eubtriangular corneous process, and at their extremity are 

 several small, prominent, black, corneous processes of different 

 sizes. 



The falces are similar in colour to the cephalo-thorax ; toler- 

 ably long and strong, and nearly vertical. Each has a strong, 

 curved, but not very sharp toothlike process in front towards the 

 extremity on the inner side directed downwards, and on the 

 inner margin below it are several minute denticulations. The 

 maxilla?, labium, and sternum are of rather a darker colour than 

 the cephalo-thorax, but present no unusual feature. The 

 abdomen is short-oval, tolerably convex above, thinly clothed 

 with hairs, and of a yellow-brown colour tinged with olive. 



Two adult males of this spider were found among grass and 

 rushes in a swamp near Bloxworth, on the 16th of May, 1879, 

 and numerous examples of both sexes among moss near the 

 same spot in October and Novomber of the same year. The 

 female resembles the male very closely in colours, but is slightly 

 larger. The form of the radial apophysis and the strong tooth 

 on the fore side noar the extremity of the falces in the male are 

 very strong and distinctive characters. Previously its only 

 known localities were at Chaville (near Paris) and Troyes in 

 France. 

 This species is nearly allied to JVeriene dolosa, Cambr. (p. 126.) 



