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Arachnid a. 



faint appearance of being annulated with sooty brown. Sparingly 

 clothed with hairs and a few long black spines. 

 Falces moderate in length and strength, convex and protuberant in 

 front near their base. Hairy, and like the cephalothorax in 

 colour. 



Maxillae same colour as the falces, slightly inclined towards the 

 labium, which is rather broader at the base than at the top, 

 where it is flat, rounded at the corners, and, with the sternum, 

 of the same colour as the maxillae. 



Abdomen oval, convex above, and projecting greatly over the base 

 of the cephalothorax. Colour pale straw- yellow, slightly suf- 

 fused with sooty points on the sides and upper side forwards. 

 No trace was visible of any pattern, but this may have been 

 owing to its very immature state. Spinners very unequal in 

 length ; upper one of each of the side pairs much the longest. 



The specimen from which I have described this species was evi- 

 dently too young to be in any way depended upon for size, colour or 

 markings ; but I have notwithstanding been induced to describe it, 

 from the strong specific character furnished by the eyes alone ; and 

 this character would not be affected by age. The great relative dis- 

 proportion in the size of the eyes, and their situation on the perpen- 

 dicular facial space, will at once distinguish it from all its congeners. 

 Jt was met^with by myself at Bloxworth, Dorset, in 1861. 



CiELOTES M^RENS. 



Female, immature. Length 1-fifteenth of an inch. Length of 

 cephalothorax 1-thirtieth. 



Cephalothorax broad and squarish in front, rather sloping from the 

 hinder part of the ocular region to the forehead, and very 

 abruptly sloping behind the abdomen. On this hind slope is a 

 broad shallow longitudinal indentation. Colour pale yellowish 

 brown, with a green tinge, suffused with blackish at the eyes. 

 About the centre of the cephalothorax is an irregular spade- 

 shaped patch, of a dull sooty colour, from which several lines 

 run from the front to the eyes, and from the sides obliquely 

 forwards. Margins black, and from them several broadish 

 stripes of dull sooty brown converge towards the hinder part of 

 the central patch, and narrow to a point as they approach it. 



Eyes in two rows, just above the insertion of the falces; the front 

 row shortest, and nearly straight; the hinder one curved slightly 



