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forwards gradually to its lower margin) considerably exceeds 

 half that of the facial space, and, when looked at in profile, 

 there is a distinct, though not very great, dip or impression just 

 behind the occiput 



The eyes are of tolerable size, and rather closely grouped 

 together ; the interval between those of the hind-central pair is 

 greater than that between each of them, and the hind-lateral eye 

 next to it. 



The legs are rather long, and tolerably strong (4.1.2.3), of a 

 bright reddish orange-yellow colour, furnished with short fine 

 hairs, and a very few erect ones on their anterior sides. 



The palpi are long, similar to the legs in colour, excepting the 

 radial and digital joints, which are of a black-brown hue. The 

 cubital joint is long, somewhat clavate, and clothed with exceed- 

 ingly short fine hairs ; the radial is short and small, and has at 

 its fore extremity on the upper side a strong, somewhat bifid, 

 apophysis ; on the outer side is another more slender one pro- 

 jecting at right angles, straight, terminating with a small, sharp 

 curved claw, and with a small somewhat tubercular prominonce 

 near its extremity in front. The radial joint also projects strongly 

 and in a curved form at its oxtremity behind, and has thus a 

 remarkable appearance, being very like a bird's foot with strong 

 spreading toes or claws. Tho digital joint is large, and the 

 palpal organs very prominent and complex, with a strong, but 

 not very long, circularly curved, black spine closely adhering to 

 their extremity on the outer side. 



The folces are neither very long nor strong, their colour being 

 like that of the cephalo-thorax. The maxilta and labium are 

 dark brown and the sternum blackish. 



The abdomon is of a short-oval form, of a dull blackish-brown 

 colour, pretty thickly clothed with short hairs, and projects 

 fairly over the base of the cephalo-thorax. 



The female resembles the male in form and colours. The 

 whole palpi in this sex are of a blackish hue. 



Adult males and females of this spider were found among 

 moss in a fir plantation near Bloxworth in October, 1879, and 



