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80 very recently attained maturity, and the characteristic process 

 being, therefore, almost concealed. Several females with this 

 process very distinctly visible havo boen met with since Neriene 

 demissa was described (I.e.). 



Neeiene iierbighada, Bl. (p. 113). 



„ exhilaeans, Cambr., Ann. and Mag., Nat. Hist., ser. 

 5, vol. 4, p. 199, pi. xii., fig. 3. 



Monsieur Simon has latoly called my attention to the probable 

 identity of the two spiders above named. In describing Neriene 

 exhilarans, I was unable to compare it with Neriene herbiqrada, 

 BL, owing to my examples of this latter spider having been 

 mislaid ; and relying upon the absence, in Mr. ElackwalPs 

 description, of any notice of some very characteristic tubercles 

 on the maxillDO of tho male, I had come to the conclusion that 

 these two spiders were distinct from each other. I havo now, 

 however, found tho types of Neriene herbigrada, and, on a careful 

 comparison, their identity with Neriene exhilarans is placod beyond 

 all doubt ; this latter name, therefore sinks into a synonym of 

 Mr. Blackwall's species. 



I would add to the short description given, at p. 113, of this 

 spider, that tho occiput is slightly gibbous, and tho whole surface 

 of tho ccphalo-thorax, which is of a deep, rich, brown colour is 

 very finely and thinly punctuose ; also, on the inner side of tho 

 indentation behind each lateral pair of eyes is a distinct black 

 triangular spot. In some examples tho abdomen is of a pale 

 yellowish-brown hue. The genital aperture of the female is 

 simplo, and of a roundish-oval form ; and the radial apophysis 

 of the malo palpus is of a slightly tapering shape, curved, 

 and obtusely pointed. 



I have mot with numerous oxamples of both sexes of this 

 spider among moss in tho neighbourhood of Bloxworth during 

 the spring of 1880. 



