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darker hue in general, as well as by slight differences in the 

 forms of the palpi and structure of the palpal organs. 



Adults of both sexes were found among moss in woods at Blox- 

 worth in June, 1880. 



GENUS WALCKENAERA, SI. 

 WALCKENAERA FURCILLATA. 



Walckenaera furcillata, Menge (p. 510). 



An adult male and two females of this most remarkable 

 species were found by myself, among heather on Bloxworth 

 Heath, on the 15th of July, 1880. This is the first record of its 

 occurrence in Dorsetshire. 



WALCKENAEUA LAUDATA sp.n. 



Adult male — length 1 line ; that of the female being rather 

 greater. 



This little spider is of a narrow and ant-like form. 



The colour of the cephalo-thorax, falces, palpi, maxillae 

 labium, and sternums, is deep blackish brown, with deeper, but 

 indistinct, lateral converging lines, the colour of the legs being 

 dusky yellowish-brown, in some examples slightly tinged with 

 red, and the abdomen dusky black. 



The lateral marginal constrictions at the caput are slight, the 

 upper part of that portion is gibbous, or slightly, but distinctly 

 raised in a convex form, and from above and immediately behind 

 each lateral pair of eyes, a small but distinct indentation runs 

 backwards. 



The eyes are small, bat those of the hind-central and two lateral 

 pairs do not differ greatly in size ; those of the hind-central pair are 

 rather more than an eye's diameter from oach other, being separated 

 byamuchgreaterinterval(atleastdoubleof an eye's diameter) from 

 the hind laterals ; those of each lateral pair are seated obliquely 



