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whitish border, bounded by a faint, red-brown, parallel line ; 

 and an obscure whitish line bisects the angular space comprised 

 between the diverging branchos of the medial line. On the 

 under side is an obscure, dark, central, longitudinal, tapering 

 band. 



Found in Cambridgeshire by the Eev. Leonard Jenyns in 1852. 



[I have never seen this spider, which is very probably a 

 Marpessa.'] 



GENUS EUOPHEYS, 0. L. Koch. 



EUOPHRYS ERHATICUS. 



Atttjb eeeatiotjs, Walclc, Sim., Arachn. de France III., p. 174. 

 Saltious distinotus, Blackw., I.e., p. 54, pi. iii., fig. 29. 



Length of the male rather less than l-6th of an inch ; female 

 somewhat larger. 



The cephalo-thorax slopes abruptly behind, is prominent in 

 front, and projects over the base of the falces. Colour very dark 

 brown, with a line of whitish hairs above the lateral margins. 

 Upper part covered with yellowish brown and whitish hairs, with 

 a short central line of the latter behind the posterior eyes. 



Legs 4.3.1.2., pale reddish brown, with brownish black 

 annuli. 



Abdomen oviform, brown, clothed with a mixture of yellowish 

 brown, reddish brown, and yellowish white hairs ; there are some 

 whitish hairs in front, and some others form a white spot directly 

 above the spinners ; in the middle of the fore part are two small 

 obscure yellowish white concentric arcs of circles, following 

 which is a series of angular lines of the same colour. The first 

 two angular lines are longest, and their extremities meet on each 

 side. Sides brown, mixed with yellowish white ; and on the 

 under side is a broad, reddish brown, central, longitudinal band. 



The male is rather the darkest coloured. Legs 4.1.3.2., first 

 and second pairs, and femora of the others, brownish black' 



