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with a pale, white-spotted, marginal band surrounding two-thirds 

 of its length from the fore extremity ; and a similar, longitudinal, 

 central, dentated band reaches to the spinners, just above which 

 is a conspicuous white spot. Upper surface of the abdomen 

 covered with minute, shining, yellow-brown tubercles. 



Legs rather short, 1.4.2.3., yellow, faintly, but broadly, 

 annulated with orange-brown. Cubital joint of palpus bent, 

 and enlarged at its fore extremity, which bears a long, prominent 

 bristle ; radial joint short, produced at its outer extremity, which 

 is furnished with some bristly hairs ; digital joint very large ; 

 palpal organs very prominent, directed outwards, and not very 

 complex. 



Found in 1869 by Mr. W. Farren in Wicken Fen, near 

 Cambridge, and also subsequently by myself at Oxford. 



?EUBYOPIS FUSCA. 



Theredion ftjscum, Blackw., I.e., p. 197. 



Length of the female 1-1 6th of an inch. 



Cephalo-thorax very convex immediately behind the eyes ; 

 thorax depressed. Abdomen subglobose, somewhat depressed, 

 glossy, and projecting greatly over base of cephalo-thorax. Legs 

 robust, 1.4.2.3., furnished with hairs, and a few fine spines. The 

 whole spider is of a dark reddish-brown colour, with some obscure 

 spots of a deeper shade on the abdomen. 



Found on railings, and under stones in pastures, towards the 

 close of the year, near Llanrwst, North Wales. 



The genus of this spider, which I have never seen, appears 

 to be rather doubtful. 



GENUS NEKIENE, Blackw. 



NERIENE PROMISCUA. 



Nebiene fromiscua, Cambr. 



Eather smaller than Neriene dentipalpis, Wid. (p. 108), to 

 which, as well as to Neriene longipalpis, Sund. (p. 107), and 

 Neriene atra, Blackw. (p. 106), it is nearly allied and bears strong 



