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among other processes there is a strongish, irregular,, curved one 

 at their base on the outer side. 



The falces are small, straight, and perpendicular. 



The maxillas are short, strong, particularly so at the base, and 

 much inclined to the labium, which is very small but of the 

 normal form. 



The abdomen is oval ; it projects but little over the base of 

 the cephalo-thorax, and its surface is thinly clothed with coarse 

 hairs. 



A single example of this small and somewhat obscure, though 

 perfectly distinct, spider was kindly sent to me, among many 

 others, by Mr. F. M. Campbell, by whom it was found in 

 the summer of 1880 at Hoddosdon, Hertfordshire. It appears 

 to be allied to Neriene sylvatica, Bl. (p. 129), but may be easily 

 distinguished by the much larger size of that spider and the 

 peculiar structural details of its palpi and falces. 



NERIENE RUSTICA Sp.ll. 



Adult male — length rather more than 1 line ; the length of 

 the female being also a little greater than that of the male. 



This spider is nearly allied to, but distinct from Neriene 

 mxutilis, Blackw. (p. 124). 



The colour of the cephalo-thorax is yellow-brown, suffused 

 with dusky blackish, and marked with blackish converging 

 latoral lines and black margin. 



The legs are of a dull reddish orange-yellow, the palpi and 

 falces are more like the cephalo-thorax, the sternum strongly 

 suffused with blackish, and the abdomen black. 



The form of the cephalo-thorax is of the ordinary typo, the 

 lateral marginal constrictions scarcoly perceptible ; looked at in 

 profile the caput and thorax are on the same level, with little or 

 no dip or indentation between them, and the fore part of the 

 ocular area is slightly prominent; the clypeus slopes a little 

 forwards, and its height is perhaps somewhat less than half that 

 of the facial space. 



