Arachnida. 



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strong, straight, corneous process, of a reddish colour, runs 

 along the inner side, and ends near their extremity in a blunt 

 point. Two other processes, edged with black, occupy the 

 centre, and end near the extremity in curved or hooked points ; 

 and there is a shorter curved process on the outer side of the 

 palpal organs near their base. 

 Falces long and moderately strong, rather sharply and abruptly 

 divergent towards their extremity. Similar in colour to the 

 cephalothorax. 



Maxillae long, strong, and curved towards the labium, which is 

 short and rather pointed at the top. 



Sternum broad, convex and hairy. These parts are of a yellowish 

 colour, more or less suffused with sooty black. 



Abdomen not so convex above as many others of this genus. Un- 

 derneath and on the sides it is of a blackish brown colour. 

 Upper part towards the cephalothorax pale dull yellowish 

 brown, divided by a more or less distinct blackish longitudinal 

 streak, from which on either side issue two or more oblique 

 lines, each of which sometimes ends in a largish spot : these lines 

 form two chevrons, with the vertices directed forwards : to these 

 succeeds a longitudinal dentated band of the same colour, nar- 

 rowing to a point just above the spinners, and bordered with 

 black ; the black border joining in with the black-brown of the 

 sides and under part. This pattern is more or less distinctly 

 visible in all the specimens I have seen : in some the whole 

 abdomen is suffused with sooty black, and thus the pattern is 

 almost obliterated. The female differs from the male only in 

 having the abdomen somewhat more convex above. The sexual 

 organs are not very prominent, but they have connected with 

 them a longish nearly straight process (or ovipositor ?), of a yel- 

 lowish colour tipped with red-brown : this process is directed 

 backwards, and applies closely to the surface of the abdomen. 



Adults of both sexes of this spider were captured by myself on iron 

 railings at Bloxworth, in May, 1862. It is, very closely allied to 

 L. pulla, which it much resembles in general colour and appearance ; 

 it is, however, smaller, and differs in the pattern on the abdomen, and 

 specially in the structure of the palpal organs ; these want the spine 

 curved in a circular form at their extremity, enclosing another spine 

 within its coil, which is characteristic of L. pulla : these organs also 



