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The male's cephalothorax is smooth and glossy; the head, 

 which has a strong depression on each side, hehind and a little 

 above the lateral eyes, is elevated into a high, very broad and blunt 

 protuberance, which, when seen in profile, is as high as it is broad 

 at the base: in front it is very steep, behind it rises perpendicularly 

 at the base, but immediately afterwards is strongly convex in the 

 upward and forward directions. Viewed from in frout the cephalic 

 eminence is broad and flat, as broad as the anterior row of eyes is 

 long, with the angles rounded off, and with steep, sligthly convex sides. 

 The posterior ceutre eyes are small and far apart, the distance be- 

 tween them as much as 3 or 4 times their diameter. A transverse 

 ledge situated just above the anterior row of eyes, separates the ce- 

 phalic eminence from the lower portion of the face. The anterior 

 row of eyes is straight, its lateral eyes separated from the small, al- 

 most contiguous centre eyes by a distance almost double as great as 

 the diameter of the lateral eyes. The height of the clypeus is con- 

 siderably less than the length of the area of centre eyes. The pa- 

 tellar joint of the palpus is about as long as the patella of the l:st 

 pair, gradually somewhat thicker towards the apex: the tibial is 

 shorter and somewhat thicker than the patellar joint; its apex has 

 on the outer side a fine, pointed, slightly curved spine, and above 

 a somewhat longer and stouter, blunt and straighter process. From 

 E. ludicra (Cambe.), to which this species is closely allied, it is 

 easily distinguished by, for inst., the cephalic eminence not being 

 inclined backwards, as it is in E. ludicra and E. elongata (Eeuss): 

 vid. sup., pp. 117, 118. — Mr Cambeidge has kindly furnished me 

 with a cf 1 ad. of this little species. 



(Pag. 316.) Walckenaera ludicra [=Erigone ludicra (Cambe.) 1861]. 



Syn.: 1861. WALCKENAe'KA LUDICEA Cambr., Deser. of ten new spec, cet., in 



Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 3 Ser., VII, 

 p. 438 (11). 



On this species see above, p. 117. 



(Pag. 341.) Epeira aealypha [= Epeira acatypha Walck. 1802]. 



Syn.: 1802. Aeanea acalypha Walck., Faune Par.. II, p. 199. 

 1805. Epeiea „ id. , Tabl. d. Aran. , p. 60. 

 1S31. „ genistje Hahn, Die Araclin. , I, p. 11, Tab. Ill, fig. 7. 



