508 



WALCKENAERA CIRRIFRONS. 



Walokenaera orRBiFRONS, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 

 458, pi. 57, No. 43. 



Length of the male 1-1 6th of an inch. 



Oephalo-thorax of a rich dark brown hue, broad and obtuse in 

 front. Caput has a slight but distinct eminence in the occipital 

 region. The eminence is paler than the rest, and a little gibbous 

 on each side of its summit at the fore part, each gibbosity 

 being furnished with a thin tuft of strongish bristly black hairs 

 directed forwards and outwards, and there is a deep longitudinal 

 indentation behind each lateral pair of eyes. The hind-central 

 eyes are in front of the top of the eminence. 



Legs yellow, femora and tibia) tinged with reddish-orange. 



Palpi yellow, cubital joint longer than the radial, curved and 

 slightly clavate ; radial joint enlarged at its extremity, produced 

 in front, mostly towards the inner side, into a subangular point 

 with an irregular margin, forming two or throe short points. 

 Digital joint small, short oval, yollow-brown ; palpal organs 

 rather complex, with two short, rather strong, black spines at 

 their extremity, one of which is slightly tortuous or corkscrew 



Abdomen short-oval, black. Allied to Walckcmera scabrioula, 

 Westr. (p. 156). 



Found at the roots of grasses on a sandy bank near Southport, 

 Lancashire, in the month of June, 1859. 



WALCKENAEEA THORELLII. 



Eriqone thorellii, Westr., Araneso Suec. p. 228. 

 "Walckenaera fastigata, Blackw., I.e., p, 314, pi. xxii., fig. 229. 



Length of the male 1-1 2th of an inch. 



Cephalo-thorax dark brown, fore part very prominent and 

 considerably elevated, with a large longitudinal indentation on 

 each side, and divided into two lobes by a deep transverse groove or 

 cleft in front. The elevated part is directed forwards, somewhat 



