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which is clothed with whitish down and sprinkled with brown hairs, 

 is at the bottom brown,- speckled with whitish grey; the pars ce- 

 phalica is, behind, in the form of a thick V, whitish grey, in front 

 of the same colour, but with some longitudinal brown lines, of which 

 the two middlemost are longest; the greatest part of the eye-area 

 and clypeus are whitish grey; the brown pars thoracica has on each 

 side four whitish grey radii and has on the margin a broad line of 

 whitish grey and brown marbling. The lateral eyes are as far from 

 each other as the anterior from the posterior centre eyes. The legs 

 and palpi are yellowish brown, most of the leg-joints being some- 

 what darkened at the apex, and the tibia? and metatarsi also darker 

 at the base. The anterior tibiae have on the under side three pairs 

 of spines. The abdomen is clothed with whitish grey hair and thinly 

 sprinkled with long brown hairs: it is dark grey above with paler 

 points and spots especially towards the sides and behind; the an- 

 terior margin is also of a paler colour. The belly is paler grey, 

 with dark spots towards the sides: along the middle it has three 

 dark, more or less distinct bands, situated close together, and con- 

 verging towards the anus, bordered by four rows of small depressed 

 points The vulva consists of a little black area, bordered in 

 the sides by two elevated narrow costae, and which in the middle, 

 behind, exhibits a septum emitting in front two rapidly divergent, 

 long, narrow costs. In one female I find the legs of the l:st pair 

 about 9, those of the 2:nd pair 11 millim. long; the 3:rd and 4:th 

 pairs are of equal length, 8'/ 3 millim.; the cephalothorax 3, the whole 

 body about 6 millim. long. In the male the 3:rd pair of legs 

 seems to be a trifle longer than the 4:th. The patellar joint of the 

 palpus in cT is as broad as the femoral joint, rapidly tapering at 

 the apex, half as long again as it is broad at the base; the tibial 

 joint is considerably slenderer than, but as long as the patellar 

 joint, double as long as it is broad; its outer side is at the apex 

 drawn out into a very strong, forward-directed process, the extre- 

 mity of which is, by a small upward-curved incision, divided iuto 

 two lobes, the upper narrow, spine-like, black and slightly curved 

 upwards, the lower much broader, truncated at the apex, and pale- 

 coloured. — I have received two females and a male of this species, 

 taken in the neighbourhood of Yienna, of Dr Redtenbacher. 



Aranea emarginata Walck. , Faune Par., II, p. 230 (= Thomisus 

 emurginatus id., Faune Franc., Arachn., p. 74; H. N. d. Ins. Apt., 



