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band, which dilates upon the dark-spotted pars cephalica; the sides 

 are marbled with pale spots, the larger ones forming a row above 

 the margin. Between the four centre eyes are a few bristles pointing 

 forwards, which are somewhat club-shaped; the bristles on the cly- 

 peus are longer, but are scarcely anything thicker towards the apex. 

 The extremity of the tibial joint of the palpus is on the outer side, 

 above, drawn out into a long, stout, almost ^--shaped, pointed spine, 

 which at the base is directed forwards, but afterwards curved down- 

 wards and a little outwards, with the apex curved slightly inwards 

 and upwards. The process at the extremity of the under side of the 

 tibial joint is slender, somewhat tapering at the apex, almost straight. 

 When seen in profile, the bulbus, on the under side, towards the 

 base, presents two downward-pointing teeth situated close together, 

 of which the anterior (the longer) is blunt, the posterior pointed. 

 The abdomen is thinly sprinkled with short, pale, visibly clublike 

 bristles. The legs are brownish yellow, the thighs of the l:st pair 

 black; those of the succeeding pairs have a broad black ring at the 

 base; the patellae are at the base a little marked with dark brown 

 spots; the tibiae have a broad black ring at the base, and are (at 

 least the fore tibiae are) also marked with black spots at the apex; 

 the hind metatarsi are black at the base. The legs are clothed 

 with fine hairs; they have a little short upright spine on the upper 

 part of the tibiae; the anterior thighs seem not to have more than 

 two spines, the posterior only one. As in X. p'aticola, the tibiae of 

 the l:st pair have on the under side, besides the two pairs of strong 

 spines, two or three fine, short spines at the apex. 



The female is, as has already been mentioned (vid. 'X. pusio 

 pp. 256, 257) very like X. praticola ?, and difficult to distinguish 

 from that spider by any other mark than its smaller dimensions 

 and the somewhat different lateral profile of the cephalothorax. It 

 is however darker: the sternum for example is black with whitish 

 spots, and the thighs of the l:st pair blackish brown with similar 

 spots, whereas iu X. praticola ¥ the sternum and the thighs of the 

 list pair are brownish yellow with dark spots. The club-like bristles 

 seen on the abdomen of X. praticola are in X. brevipes extremely 

 short and mixed with others still shorter, which are scarcely thic- 

 kened at all the apex. — The true X. brevipes (Hahn) also has been 

 met with in Sweden; I have seen one specimen from Sk&ne, captured 

 by Mr Roth, of Lund. 



