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orange-yellow colour, furnished with hairs, and (chiefly on the 

 tibial joints) with a few erect slender bristles. 



The falces are small, straight, slightly inclined backwards, 

 and (with the maxillse, labium, and sternum) similar in colour to 

 the cephalo-thorax. 



The abdomen is large, tolerably convex above, of a somewhat 

 oblong-oval form, and projects, though not greatly, over the 

 base of the thorax ; it is of a dull black hue tinged with olive, 

 glossy, and very sparingly clothed with hairs. A very broad, 

 strong, prominent process is connected with the genital aperture ; 

 the extremity being of a somewhat re-curved form. 



A single example of this spider was received about the middle 

 of June, 1879, from the late Colonel Pickard, E.A., V.O., by 

 whom it was found at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. The very 

 peculiar and irregular profile line of the cephalo-thorax, the 

 projecting clypeus, and prominent genital process will serve 

 to distinguish this species from all its congeners known to me. 



NERIENE SUBLIMIS. 



Neriene sublimis, Cambr., Proc. Berwickshire, N.H. Club vii., 

 p. 314. 



Length of the male l-10th of an inch; female larger, being 

 nearly 2 lines in length ; of slender form, and allied to Neriene 

 fu&cipatpis, C. L. Koch (p. 129), but readily distinguished by its 

 larger size, redder-brown legs, slenderer falces, and the structure 

 of the palpal organs. 



Cephalo-thorax deep brown. 



Legs long, 4.1.2.3., slender, yellow-brown, the femora strongly 

 tinged with red. 



Palpi of the male short, radial joint strongest, with its outer 

 extremity produced into a short, slight point, and a slightly 

 angular point at the extremity in front, rather towards the innor 

 side. Cubital joint rather nodiform, with a longish, slightly 

 sinuous bristle directed forwards from its anterior side. Digital 

 joint of tolerable size, and somewhat angularly prominent 



