Arachnida. 



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brown underneath, with a pale oblique line forwards, just above 

 the plates of the spiracles, and a longitudinal pale line on each 

 side, meeting at the spinners, which are of a pale drab colour. 

 Palpi short, not very strong. The cubital joint has a strong black 

 bristly hair on its upper side. Radial joint produced into a 

 sharp projection in front on the inner side. Digital joints large ; 

 their convex sides turned towards each other. Near the middle of 

 the digital joint on the upper side there is a strong conical pro- 

 minence, flattened on the outer side; but this prominence is 

 not proportionally so large, nor is its apex directed backwards, 

 as in N. conigera; neither is its outer side so concave, and it 

 does not spring from so near the base of the joint. Palpal 

 organs very prominent and complicated ; their colour is yel- 

 lowish red, edged and marked with red-brown. 



I captured an adult male of this species among heath-stems and 

 roots, at Bloxworth, in June, 1862. 



Neriene anomala. 



Female, adult. Length 1-eleventh of an inch. Length of cephalo- 

 thorax 1-twenty-fourth. Relative length of legs, 4, 1 — 2, 3. 



Cephalothorax small, oval, compressed forwards. Colour dull 

 yellow-brown, with some sooty lines springing from the margins 

 (which are similarly bounded), and meeting in a point near the 

 centre. A little way behind the eyes there is a figure of a 

 triangle with the angles cut off, and divided down the centre, 

 formed by similar sooty brown lines. A short transverse in- 

 dentation occupies each side of the medial line, and there is a 

 longitudinal one in the medial line of the hinder part. 



Eyes in two rows of equal curvature, the curves directed from each 

 other; the hinder row is slightly the longest. The eyes of both 

 rows are nearly equal in size ; the centre ones of the front row 

 slightly the smallest, and near together, but not touching each 

 other. The centre ones of the hinder row are rather further apart 

 from each other than each is from the end one on its side. The 

 eyes of each of the side pairs are placed very slightly obliquely, 

 and are contiguous. 



Legs bright yellow-brown, tinged with reddish, pale at the articu- 

 lations of the joints. Fourth pair decidedly longer than the 

 first, which are little if any longer than the second, and the 



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