without any strong line of demarcation, into the sides and hinder 

 part of the caput. 



Legs moderately long, pale yellowish. 



Palpi similar in colour to the legs, moderate in length and 

 strength ; tho radial joint is shorter than the cubital, and has its 

 fore-extremity, on the upper side, produced into a rather long, 

 tapering, sharp-pointed apophysis, whose extremity is slightly 

 curved outwards and upwards. Digital joint of moderate size, 

 palpal organs complex, with two or more black spines at their 

 extremity. 



Abdomen short, broad-oval, and of a sooty-black colour. 



Found near Paisley, and also in Northumberland and Ber- 

 wickshire. Allied to Neriene wpicata, Bl. (p. 115), Neriene retusa> 

 "Westr. (p. 116), Neriene gibbosa, Bl. (p. 117), and Neriene tuberosa, 

 Bl. (p. 1 1 7), but easily distinguished by the form of the occipital 

 gibbosity, as well as by the structure of the palpi. 



NERIENE DOUGLASII. 



Neriene Dotjgxasii, Cambr., Ann. and Mag. N.IL, 4th ser., vol. 

 16, p. 247, pi. viii., fig. 5. 



Length of an immature female 1 J line. 



Oephalo-thorax yellow ; occiput, and converging lines on the 

 sides, dusky black ; lateral margins of thorax black. 



Legs long, 1.4.2.3., pale yellow, armed with numerous coarse 

 hairs, and a very few longish, slender, spine-like bristles. 



The eyes of the posterior row are divided by equal intervals 

 of an eye's diameter. 



Abdomen dull greenish-black above and on the sides, with a 

 darker, coarse, longitudinal stripe on the fore-part, and a series 

 of tolerably distinct pale yellowish, obliquely opposed spots or 

 patches in pairs along the middle of the upper side towards the 

 spinners. The first pair are the largest, and of an oval form ; 

 the next moro elongate, the rest are simply transverse angular 

 bars. Under side dull pale yellowish, with a broad, longitudinal) 



