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only just half that of the facial space. Legs 4.1.2.3. The tibiee 

 of the first pair are rather incrassated (like those of Neriene 

 clara). The eyes are smaller than those of Neriene pudens. Form 

 of the genital aperture very distinct. 

 Found on the Cheviot Hills. 



NERIENE MORULA. 



Neriene mortjla, Catnbr., Trans. Linn. Soo. p. 545, pi. xlvi., fig. 

 16. 



Length of the male 1 line, female rather larger. 



General form and structure of ordinary type. 



Cephalo -thorax deep yellow-brown ; legs and palpi dull 

 orange ; abdomen blackish ; palpi of the male shorter. Eadial 

 joint much stronger than the cubital, with some longish bristly 

 hairs towards the outer side in front, and produced at the fore 

 extremity of the upper side into a tapering, pointed, very slightly 

 curved apophysis nearly equal to the joint in length, and its 

 point directed inwards. Digital joint of moderate size, palpal 

 organs prominent and complex. Eyes of the hind-central pair 

 further from each other, than each is from the lateral, of the 

 same row next to it. 



Easily distinguished from many other small, very similar, and 

 allied species by the form of the radial joint of the palpus. 



Found on the Cheviot Hills. 



NERIENE FDRVA. 



Neriene fcrva, Blackw., I.e., p. 253. 



Length of the male l-9th of an inch. 



Apparently of ordinary general form. Cephalo-thorax dark- 

 brown, slightly tinged with red, and darkest on the caput. 



Legs robust, of a red tint. 



Falces strong, and convex in front. 



Palpi similar in colour to the legs. Cubital and radial joints 

 short ; the former strongest, the latter has two apophyses at its 



