501 



From Walckenaera brevis, Wid. (p. 142), the present spider 

 may be distinguished not only by the same characters in respect 

 to the eyes, which distinguish it from Walckenaera brevipes, but 

 by its much smaller size, paler colour, and the still greater pro- 

 portionate height of clypeus, which in Walckenaera brevis is no 

 more than half that of the ocular area. 



Two adult females were received from my cousin, the late 

 Colonel Pickard, It. A., by whom they were found at Balmoral 

 Castle, Scotland, about the middle of June, 1879. 



GENUS WALCKENAEEA, Blaclw. 

 WALCKENAERA SUBiEQUALIS. 



Ekioone subjeqtjalis, Westr., Aran. Suec, p. 251. 

 "Walckenaera foktxjita, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 

 452, pi. lvii., No. 37. 

 Length of the male l-16th of an inch. Female somewhat 



Cephalo-thorax, legs, and palpi dark-brown, tinged with 

 yellowish. The caput is rounded above, slightly elevated, and 

 has a narrow, longitudinal indentation behind each lateral pair 

 of eyes. Legs rather short and slender, 1.4.2.3., but there is not 

 much difference in their actual length. Palpi short. Eadial 

 joint stronger than the cubital, enlarged all round at its extremity, 

 chiefly before and behind ; the margin is uneven, but presents 

 no very marked prominences or projections. Digital joint rather 

 small, with a strongish lobe on the outer side, and slightly pro- 

 tuberant near the base on the inner side ; palpal organs rather 

 complex, with a very slender filiform spine enveloped in mem- 

 brane connected with their surface. Abdomen of a blackish 

 colour. The sexes resemble each other in colour. 



Found among grass and other herbage in June, 1869, near the 

 Basingstoke Eailway Station. 



