474 



This spider is nearly allied to Tegenaria atrica, 0. L. Koch 

 (p. 62), but may be easily distinguished by its much longer 

 legs, less distinctly and differently marked abdomon, and 

 rounder thorax. 



The legs, also, are annulated, and furnished with longer hairs, 

 and the palpi differ in structure. It is also more exclusively a 

 House-spider. 



Abundant at Oxford in cellars, and in old cupboards and 

 dark corners of unused rooms ; found also in the London dis- 

 trict and in Cambridgeshire. It is probably the spider which 

 has been (inaccurately) stated to be peculiar to Hampton Court, 

 under the name of "The Cardinal." A tradition exists that 

 this spider terrified Cardinal Wolsey, and hence obtained its 

 trivial name. 



GENUS CEYPHOECA, Thorell. 



CRYPHOECA SILVICOLA. 



Teghnaria silvioola, Blackw., I.e., p. 168, pi. xii., fig. 108. 

 Hahnia silvioola, C. Koch, Die Arachn. xii., p. 158, tab. 432, 

 figs. 1076 and 1077. 



Length of the female l-8th of an inch ; male rather smaller. 



Cephalo-thorax pale brown, with narrow, dark brown margins, 

 and converging lines of the same colour on the sides of the 

 thorax. 



Legs moderate in length, relatively 4.1.2.3., yellow-brown, 

 annulated and marked with brownish-black. 



Palpi yellow-brown. 



Abdomen dark brown above, with a central, longitudinal series 

 of angular lines, often coalescing so as to form a broad, longi- 

 tudinal, dentated, yellow-brown band, at tho fore extremity of 

 which is a longitudinal, tapering blackish stripe. Sides dark 

 brown mottled with yellow-brown ; under side yellowish-brown 

 with three, not very distinct, longitudinal dark brown bands. 



The radial joint of the male palpus has a strong prominent 



