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Cubital and radial joints of the palpi short. Radial apophysis 

 long, pointed, and curved abruptly at its extremity. Digital joint 

 large, oval, very dark brown. Palpal organs prominent, simple 

 in structure, and projecting backwards to the articulation of the 

 radial and cubital joints. 



The sexes do not differ much in colours and markings. 



Found in North "Wales, and North Lancashire undor stones 

 on old walls ; adult in May and June. I have also received it 

 from the neighbourhood of Exeter. 



EUOPHRYS (?) GRACILIS. 



SALTIOT73 GRACILIS, BUckw., 1.0. p, 56. 



Length of the female, 3-20ths of an inch. 



The cephalo-thorax slopes from the middle towards eaeh 

 extremity, and projects a little beyond the base of the fakes. 

 It is glossy, very dark brown, with a transverse curved band of 

 intermixed white and yellowish-brown hairs behind the eyes, its 

 extremities extending to a similar transverse band in front. 

 Legs short, 4.3.1.2., yellowish-brown, with black annuli, those 

 at the extremity of the femora and tibiae being most conspicuous. 

 Palpi short, strong, pale yellow-brownish. Abdomen oviform, 

 pointed behind, and thickly covered with hairs of a very dark 

 brown colour, mixed with scattered yellow-brownish hairs. At 

 the fore extremity is a semi-circular, transvorse, yollowish-white 

 band, and on the sides several oblique spots of the same hue ; 

 in tho middle are two angular yellowish- white lines, the posterior 

 one much the strongest. Under sido yellowish-white, with a 

 broad, longitudinal, dark-brown, central band. 



Found among heather in woods on the Carnarvonshire and 

 Denbighshire sides of the Valley of the Conway. 



[I have not seen this spidor, which Mr. Blackwall supposes to 

 be Sallicus gracilis, Halm. It is, I imagino, a species of Euophrys, 

 and nearly allied to Euophrys tsquipw Cambr., p. 404.] 



