8596 



Arachnida. 



Legs stoutish, not very long. Their colour is a pale yellow-brown, 

 slightly tinged with red ; and they are clothed with short pale 

 hairs. The first and fourth pairs differ but slightly in length ; 

 the second pair is a little shorter, and the third pair shortest. 



Falces of moderate length and strength, and similar in colour to the 

 cephalothorax. 



Maxillae broad at the base, inclined towards the labium, rather 

 rounded at the tips, and obliquely truncated on the outer sides. 

 Similar in colour to the falces, but pale whitish at the tops. 



Labium small, short, flatly curved at the top. 



Sternum broad, very convex, squared off at the labium, and, with 

 that part, of a greenish yellow colour, mottled and suffused with 

 dark sooty brown. 



Palpi similar to the cephalothorax in colour, not very long. Hu- 

 meral joint bent inwards. Radial and cubital joints both short, 

 the latter sharply bent in the middle ; radial joint stoutest of the 

 two, and produced, rather on the outer side in front, into a 

 strong projection, which curves outwards over the basal half of 

 the digital joint, and is bifid at its extremity : on the outer side 

 of the extremity of the radial there is another projection, 

 shorter than the former ; it is rather obtuse at the end, and 

 curves slightly in an opposite direction. Palpal organs not 

 very complex, but highly developed and. prominent. A strong 

 corneous red-brown spine springs from their base rather on 

 the inner side, curves over them and obliquely round their 

 extremity, and so down the outer side of the digital joint, 

 having its filiform point in contact with a semitransparent lobe 

 near its origin. 



Abdomen short-oval, very convex above, and projects slightly over 

 the base of the cephalothorax. Its colour is a dark sooty brown, 

 tinged with greenish. 



Specimens of this very minute and rather puzzling species were 

 met with by myself on furze-bushes and underwood at Bloxworth, in 

 May, 1862. 



In addition to the above twenty-four species, the following have 

 come under my notice, either as new to Britain, or else as met with 

 by myself for the first time ; and I give them here as supplementary 

 to the lists contained in Zool. 6493, 6862, 7553, 7045. 



