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legs of the 4 th pair only about 3'/ 4 times the length of the cepha- 

 lothorax (in both sexes). The sternum is of a paler or darker yel- 

 lowish brown, often, but not always, with a paler middle-stripe. 

 The first row of eyes is scarcely so long as the middle row; the 

 centre eyes of the first row are hardly larger than the lateral eyes, 

 or more widely separated from each other than from them. The 

 mandibles are in both sexes but inconsiderably longer than the me- 

 tatarsi of the 1 st pair. The vulva consists of a rather large, red- 

 dish brown area rounded in front, the side-parts of which have the 

 form of two large, slightly convex, oblong, rounded elevations, behind 

 which the area is drawn out somewhat backwards to the rima geni- 

 talis: this middle and posterior, narrower part, which is somewhat 

 broader behind, exhibits two longitudinal depressions or furrows di- 

 verging backwards. The male's palpi are yellowish brown, with 

 darker stripes; their tibial joint is only half as long again as it is 

 broad, scarcely longer than the patellar joint. \ The lamina is at 

 the base blackish and broad, as broad as the thighs of the 1 st pair. 

 The bulbus is short, very turgid, almost as high as it is long; on 

 the outer side it exhibits a coarse, pale, compressed process, issuing 

 from the middle of the bulbus, and reaching to its apex: it lies 

 close to the bulbus, making a slightly ^-formed curve, and, having 

 its blunt extremity directed downwards. At the inner border,, near 

 the apex, the bulbus has a short, broad, blunt, downward-pointing, 

 black little lamella or tooth; about the middle of the under side, 

 though somewhat nearer to the apex, it exhibits a very small , down- 

 ward-directed, black tooth. All this is easily seen, when thebulbu 

 is examined in profile either from the inner or outer side. 



P. uliginosus Thoe. much resembles P. hygrophilus, but is ne- 

 vertheless a fully distinct species. I have only two full-grown 

 (dried) female specimens of it, in which the cephalothorax is 2'/ 2 

 millim. long by 2 millim. broad, its breadth being equal to the 

 length of the tibia of the 4 th pair; the patella and tibia of that 

 pair are together V s millim. longer than the cephalothorax. The 

 margin of the cephalothorax is black, and the snow-white hair-line 

 along the edge, usual in most of the species of Pirata, seems here 

 to be entirely absent. The sternum is blackish, with a pale middle- 

 line. The first row of eyes appears to me shorter than the middle 

 row, and the eyes in it to be about equally distant from each other, 

 and the central scarcely larger than the lateral eyes. The legs are 

 of a dark olive- or blackish-yellow colour, with darker spots and 



