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3 millim. long (about equal to patella + tibia of the 4 th pair), the 

 first pair of legs somewhat more than 7 , the 4 th 9'/., millim. long, 

 the metatarsi of the 4 th double as long as those of the 1 st pair, the 

 eyes of the anterior row at very nearly equal distances, the poste- 

 rior central eyes farther from each other than from the side eyes, 

 the mandibles at least half as thick again as the thighs, as long 

 as, or a little longer than the metatarsi of the 1 st pair, the cepha- 

 lothorax destitute of a black border, sternum brownish yellow, — is 

 identical with ('. frutetorum L. Koch (loc. cit., p. 344, Taf. XIV, 

 figg. 224 — 226). Of C. frutetorum, which has not before been re- 

 corded as Swedish, I have captured specimens of both sexes at Satra 

 in Westmanland ')• 



We now possess from the pen of L. Koch a so accurate de- 

 scription of C. pallidula, that this spider cannot hereafter easily be 

 mistaken for any other. The dark lateral border of the cephalothorax 

 is absent only in one specimen (from Austria) of the many which I 

 have seen; the sternum is probably always of a much darker colour 

 than the legs. The second pair of legs is in the female perceptibly 

 longer than, in the male as long as, the 1 st . In <J the posterior cen- 

 tral eyes appear to me a little farther removed from each other 

 than from the lateral eyes, in $ these distances are equal. The 

 tibial joint of the palpus in S has at its apex a strong process 

 directed forwards and outwards, divided into 3 small lobes, of which 

 the middle one is the longest, somewhat pointed, bent downwards; 

 the anterior is short and truncated at the extremity, the posterior 

 (under) very small, pointed, and difficult to see. The vulva consists 

 of a brown or black area truncated behind, the posterior angles of 

 which are formed by two costa? curved almost to a right angle, 

 which are separated by a depression from the rest of the area, and 

 do not reach each other with their inward directed, at the termina- 

 tion glossy and somewhat dilated extremities; as the depressions 



1) The mandibles are in C. frutetorum <J more slender than the anterior 

 thighs, as long as the metatarsi of the 1 st pair; the tibial joint of the palpi has 

 two processes at the extremity, outwards: the upper one is dark, large, lamellar, 

 arched, tapering toward the obtuse, downward-bent extremity, beneath this pro- / 

 cess, and separated from it by a deep, semi-elliptic incisure, proceeds another 

 forward directed process, which is of a brownish yellow colour, truncated at the 

 extremity, and almost as long and coarse as the upper process. The area of the 

 vulva is brown; it is broadly and rather deeply emarginated behind, with the 

 posterior corners strong, rounded and pointing backward. 



