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rounded in front, depressed along the middle, and furnished 

 with short hairs. The eyes of the hind-central pair are seated 

 on the summit, and divided only by a diameter's interval. The rest 

 are on the lower lobo, the fore part of which is clothed with 

 hairs. 



Legs rather long, slender, yellowish red. 



Palpi similar to the legs in colour. Cubital joint strong, 

 clavate ; radial joint much smaller, produced and pointed at its 

 extremity in front. Digital joint of moderate size, round-oval, 

 dark yellow-brown. Palpal organs prominent and rather com- 

 plex. Abdomen brownish-black. 



Found among moss near Southport, Lancashire, in the month 

 of June. Also received from Nuremberg, Bavaria, as well as 

 from near Paris. A very striking and distinct species. 



WALCKENAERA NODOSA. 



Walokenaera nodosa, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii., p. 550, 

 pi. xlvi., fig. 21. 



Length of the male 1J line. 



Cephalo-thorax pale yellowish-brown. Logs and palpi pale 

 yellowish. Abdomen dull blackish ; probably these colours would 

 be deeper and richer in older examples, the one described from 

 having evidently not long effected its final moult. 



The fore part of the caput is elevated into a roundish, not very 

 large, knob -like eminence, well defined, and divided on the sides 

 and hinder part, from the rest of the caput, by a deep groovo or 

 indentation. Near the middle of the summit of this eminence 

 are the two hind-central eyes, and not far below them are the 

 rest, in three pairs, in a transverse line. The legs are moderate 

 in length and strength (4.1.3.2.). Palpi rather long ; cubital joint 

 long and somewhat clavate ; radial very short, and expanding 

 into three apophyses ; one rather on the inner side, in front, is 

 longest and strongest, tapering to a blunt point and terminating 

 with a sharp, slightly curved spine, directed outwards ; on the 

 outer margin of this apophysis, near the baso, is a small black, 



