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but not very complex. Abdomen oviform, dark brown and 

 yellowish brown intermixed ; covered with white iridescent 

 squamose hairs ; and directly abovo tho spinners is a spot of 

 denso white hairs. 



Found in the month of Soptember many years ago at Broad- 

 stairs, in Kent. 



GENUS SEGESTEIA, Latr. 



SEGESTRIA FLORENTINA, EoSSl. 



Seoestkia perfida, WaM., Blackw., I.e., p. 373, pi. xxviii., fig. 

 269. 



Length of the male nearly 3-4ths of an inch. 



Easily distinguished from our other indigenous species by its 

 larger size, and by the brilliant glossy green colour of the falces. 



Found at Plymouth, on the authority of the late Dr. Leach 

 (Supplement to Encyclop. Brit. Ed. 4, 5, and 6, Art Annulosa). 

 Abundant in Spain and Southern Europe, in holes and crevicea 

 of walls, trees, &c. (I have not yet seen a British example.) 



