484 

 NERIENE CUKTIPES. 



Neriene curtipes, Cambr., Proc. Berwickshire Nat. Hist. Club 

 vii., p. 314. 



Length of the male 1 line. 



Cephalo-thorax deep shining black-brown. Occipital region 

 of the caput rather elevated, rounded, and furnished with a few 

 hairs. Ocular region a little prominent. Clypeus prominent 

 below, its height exceeding half that of facial space. 



Legs short, 1.4.2.3, slender, yellowish red-brown; palpi short, 

 and similar to the legs in colour ; radial joint stronger than the 

 cubital, with its upper and outer sides slightly emarginato, leaving 

 a small, prominent, obtuse point at the middle of the fore 

 extremity. Digital joint large, and of a regular oval form; palpal 

 organs compact, and not very complex ; a strong, dark, brown, 

 spiny process curves closely round their inner margin, from the 

 outer side of their base to the fore part of the inner side, where 

 it is met by the point of a slender filiform black spine, which 

 issues from near their fore part on the outer side, and traverses 

 them in close contact, in a directly transverse direction. 



Abdomen obscure greenish black, the cuticle having a semi- 

 coriaceous and slight punctuose appearance. 



Found in Berwickshire. 



NERIENE RUDIS. 



Neriene iutois, Cambr., Ann. and Mag. N.H., 1879, ser. 5, vol. 

 iv., p. 179. 



Length of the adult female rather more than 1£ lines. 



The profile of the uppor part of tho caput of this spider forms 

 a strong curve, the occipital region being considerably convex ; 

 the lateral constrictions on the lower margins of tho caput are 

 but slight. 



The colour of the cephalo-thorax is a bright, shining, yellow- 

 brown, the legs (which are tolerably long, rather slender, and 

 furnished with hairs and a few fine bristles) being a little lighter 



