NEW SPECIES OF EUROPEAN SPIDERS. 



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Family Agelenides. 



Genus C(elotes (Bl.). 



Ccelotes Pickardi, sp. n. PI. XIV. fig. 5 a, d. 

 Adult male, length 4 lines. 



This very interesting spider is exceedingly closely allied to C. saxatilis 

 (Bl.), which it nearly resembles in size, form, and colours ; it is, how- 

 ever, rather smaller than the average of the many examples of C. 

 saxatilis ( <$ ) which have come under my notice ; it is also a darker- 

 coloured spider, the dark-brown markings on the upperside and 

 sides of the abdomen being in the present species much blacker, 

 and the underside, which in C. saxatilis is invariably of an almost 

 immaculate light yellow-brown, is in C. Pickardi strongly marked 

 and suffused with black ; the sternum also is deep black- brown, 

 while in the other species named it is reddish yellow-brown ; the cepha- 

 lothorax also is of a deeper hue. But perhaps the strongest specific 

 distinction, and one easily seen, is furnished by the form of the cubital 

 joint of the palpus ; in C. saxatilis (PI. XIV. fig. 5, b, c) there is a 

 strong apophysis at the outer extremity ; but (when looked at from 

 the outer side, as well as in some other positions) this apophysis 

 has two angular prominences on its upperside, the one towards its 

 base being the strongest ; in C. Pickardi, however, the correspond- 

 ing apophysis is totally destitute of any angular prominence ; it is 

 also rather longer and stronger, and tapers gradually, terminating in 

 an obtuse point ; it has likewise a slightly upward direction, while 

 that of C. saxatilis is, if anything, directed rather downwards; the 

 apophysis also at the outer extremity of the radial joint is larger in 

 this than in the present species ; and some small differences are ob- 

 servable in the structure of the palpal organs. 



A single adult male was contained in a small collection of 

 Arachnida, kindly made for me in 1867, during a tour in Switzer- 

 land, by my cousin, the Rev. H. Adair Pickard, M.A., with whose 

 name I have now great pleasure in connecting it. 



G-enus Textrix (Sund.). 



Textrjx Moggridgii, sp. n. PI. XIV. fig 6. 

 Adult female, length 3| lines. 



In form, general structure, and size, this spider is very like T. lycosina 

 (Sund.) ; but" it may be distinguished at once by the absence of any 

 annulation on the legs or pattern on the cephalothorax, as well as by 

 its generally paler and plainer colouring and the different design on 

 the abdomen. 



The cephalothorax, legs, and sternum are of a dull yellowish colour ; the 



