Arachnida. 



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latter mottled at their base and outer sides with blackish, suf- 

 fused with brown. Sternum the same, broadly edged with 

 black-brown and thinly freckled with black points. 

 Palpi short, hairy, and similar in colour to the legs. Cubital joint 

 shorter than the radial, and furnished with several long bristly 

 hairs. The radial joint is produced, on its outer side forwards, 

 into a strong abruptly-pointed projection, overlapping the side 

 of the digital joint, which is roundish-oval, prolonged at the end 

 into a kind of snout. The convex sides of the digital joints are 

 turned underneath and slightly towards each other, thus turning 

 the palpal organs upwards and slightly outwards. These organs 

 are not complicated, nor very highly developed : they consist 

 chiefly of a circular lobe, of a dull reddish yellow colour, palest 

 in the centre. This lobe is arched over by a fringe of long, 

 bristly, black hairs, springing from the outer edge of the pro- 

 duced part of the radial joint, which has a deep red-brown 

 horny margin. This fringe is met by another of less con- 

 spicuous hairs, issuing from the opposite and black margin of 

 the digital joint. The outer edge of the palpal organs is en- 

 circled by the coils of two very long dark red-brown filiform 

 spines, one of which issues from the inner side of the circular 

 lobe, and the other from near the inner side of the radial joint : 

 these spines have the appearance, in some specimens, of being 

 but one of a larger size, but with a little care they may be sepa- 

 rated, and seen to consist of two smaller ones : the length of 

 these spines, when uncoiled, is upwards of 1-fourth of an inch. 

 The female is rather larger than the male, but resembles it in 

 colour and markings. 



An adult male and immature females of this species were captured 

 on furze-bushes at Hursley, near Winchester, in May, 1860, but were 

 overlooked among specimens of T. pulchellum, to which it is allied, 

 until I met with it again in tolerable abundance at Bloxworth, in June, 

 1862. It differs very remarkably from T. pulchellum in the form of 

 the palpi, and structure of the palpal organs (especially the long, fine, 

 coiled spines connected with them), although resembling it somewhat 

 in the markings of the cephalothorax and abdomen ; it is, though, less 

 vivid in its colours than that species. It spins an irregular web among 

 the shoots and blossoms of the common furze. 



