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GENUS NERIENE, Bl. 

 Neriene fusca, Blackw. 



„ fusoa, Bl., I.e., p. 275, pi. xix., fig. 189, and pi. xxii., 

 fig. E. 



,, AGRestis, Cambr., aute p. 115, excluding reference to 



Spid. Gt. Brit, and Irel., p. 276. 

 ,, aqrestis, Blachc, I.e., pi. xix., fig. 190, and pi. xxii. 

 fig. D. 

 The confusion hithorto existing between' this spider and the 

 true Neriene agrestis, Blackw., appears to bo now satisfactorily 

 cloarod up by the example of this latter recorded at p. 486, and 

 kindly sent to me by Mr F. M. Campboll, from Hoddesdon, 

 Hertfordshire. 



Neriene innotabilis, Cambr. (p. 131). 



I havo latoly (July 1, 1880), for the first time, mot with an 

 adult female of this spider. It is larger than the male, but 

 resembles that sex in colours and other general characters. The 

 abdomen is very convox above, and projects considerably over 

 the base of thocophalo-tborax ; it is of a deep shining yellowish- 

 brown colour, palest on the upper side, and with a dull whitish 

 blotch immediately abovo the spinners. Connectod with tho 

 genital aperture is an exceedingly strong vertical process, 

 •whose length is a little less than its width. The palpi are short, 

 but the digital joint is not tumid, though in some other rospeets 

 this spider is much like Neriene anomala, Cambr., which last may 

 possibly bo the female sex of Neriene subtilis, Ibid. 



The example above described was found (with the malo) on 

 the trunk of a fir tree at Bloxworth. 



Neriene conigera, Cambr. (p. 132). 



Towards tho end of Maj% 1880, 1 found several adult oxamples 

 of both soxes of this rare spider at the roots of heather and under 

 old turves on Bloxworth Heath. 



Tho gor.ital process of the female is strong and prominont. 



