Arachnida. 



8595 



Sternum broad, convex, and of a black-brown colour. 



Palpi not very long ; similar to the legs in colour. Cubital joint 

 slightly clavate, and longer than the radial joint, which is stout, 

 and has a pointed blackish projection on the outer side, and is 

 produced at its extremity in front into a long nearly straight 

 projection, which stretches over the digital joint towards the 

 inner side : from the under side of this projection there issues a 

 conspicuous semitransparent point-process, directed downwards. 

 Digital joint hairy, and darker-coloured than the rest. Palpal 

 organs prominent and complicated, with several short, black, 

 curved spines at their extremity ; their colour is dark red-brown 

 mixed with black. 



Abdomen broadish and convex. Colour deep sooty black. 



I captured an adult male of this species on a wall at Bloxworth, in 

 May, 1862, and have since (in March, 1863) met with several, both 

 males and females, among low-growing plants and moss in woods. 

 The female differs from the male only in the absence of the ocular 

 elevation, and in being slightly larger. Though allied to other spe- 

 cies in the division of the ocular region into two segments by a 

 transverse groove, it may easily be distinguished by the breadth, 

 boldness and comparative lowness of the hinder segment. 



Walckenaera minima. 



Male, adult. Length 1 -twenty-second of an inch. Length of ce- 

 phalothorax 1-forty-second. Relative length of legs, 1 — 4, 2, 3. 



Cephalothorax has the ocular region moderately elevated ; this ele- 

 vation rises from the cephalothorax rather abruptly behind ; it 

 is obtusely rounded at the back part of its summit, from which 

 it is truncated by a long slope to the lower pairs of eyes, where 

 there are some coarsish black hairs. Its colour is pale yellow- 

 brown, tinged with green, and with a strong sooty-coloured line 

 round the base of the ocular eminence. The cephalothorax, at 

 the upper part of its hinder slope, is slightly raised above the 

 part that comes between it and the ocular region. 



Eyes in four pairs — one pair on the top of the ocular elevation, 

 at the commencement of the slope ; these are wide apart, and 

 the largest of the eight : the lateral pairs are just below the ter- 

 mination of the slope on either side ; the eyes of each of these 

 pairs are contiguous, and placed slightly obliquely ; the fore- 

 most eye, if anything, rather larger than the hinder one. 



