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half is deep black -brown above, and dull blackish on the sides, 

 with a short curved, oblique, pale patch or bar on each side near 

 the spinners. The under side has a dull, yellow-brown, longi- 

 tudinal central band. 



The female nearly resembles the male in colours and markings, 

 excepting that the tibiee of the third and fourth pairs and the 

 femora of the second pair of legs have a longitudinal blackish stripe, 

 the former on the outer side, the latter on the inner side near the 

 front. The metatarsi of the first pair are black, and the fomora 

 suffused with blackish. The palpi are red-brown and black ; the 

 radial and digital joints large, flattened and fringed with long 

 hairs. The falces project obliquely, but not longitudinally, and 

 are only of ordinary length. 



Found in Scotland, on the authority of the late Dr. Leach 

 (Encyclop. Brit. Supplem. to 4th, 5th, and 6th Ed. Art. Annulosa). 

 An example (now in the British Museum) has been met with at 

 Southend by Mr. C. Watorhouse, and one was taken by the late 

 J. C Dale, Esq., of Glanvilles Wootton, at the Salterns, near 

 Lymington, Hampshire, in August, 1865. 



The examples from which the above description has been 

 made were sent to mo by M. Simon from France, where it is 

 generally distributed and not rare. 



