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Arachnida. 



smallest, and are each rather nearer the centre one on its side 

 than the centre ones are to each other. 



Legs moderately long and slout, very sparingly furnished with hairs 

 and a few black sessile spines. Each tarsus ends with two curved 

 pectinated claws, below which is a small scopula. Colour pale 

 dull yellow, with a small reddish mark or two at the joints. 



Palpi short and slight. The cubital joint has a small red-brown 

 projection at its end on the under side. Radial joint shorter 

 than the cubital, and has a small crescent-shaped projection on 

 the outer side, the upper limb of which is rather the smallest and 

 shortest ; this projection is edged and tipped with dark reddish 

 brown. Digital joint small, oblong-oval, with a minute slender 

 black spine towards its extremity, issuing among the hairs from 

 its inner margin. Palpal organs neither complex nor highly 

 developed ; they have a corneous red-brown spine issuing from 

 their extremity on the inner side, curving slightly downwards 

 and outwards, and so round just below the outer margin of the 

 digital joint, ending near its base. The colour of these organs 

 is brown, tinged with red. 



Falces very powerful, long, prominent and convex ; when looked at 

 in profile they describe an arc of a circle. They are slightly 

 hollowed on the inner side toward the extremity, and are of a 

 rich deep red-brown colour. 



Maxillae straight, enlarged and rounded at the extremity on the outer 

 side, abruptly sloping on the inner side to the labium. 



Labium broad, enlarged at the top, which is slightly hollowed or 

 notched. This and the maxillae are dark brown, paler at the 

 top. 



Sternum heart-shaped, with eminences on the sides opposite the 

 legs. Colour dull yellow, with a fine broken edging of reddish. 



Abdomen long, oviform, but rather shorter than the cephalothorax, 

 of a red-brown colour, paler on the under side, and sparingly 

 clothed with short pale yellowish hairs. It has on the upper 

 side a large wedge-shaped band; at its commencement at the 

 upper end nearly as wide as the abdomen. This band extends 

 about two-thirds of the length towards the spinners, and its edges 

 are boldly but irregularly dentated ; it is most visible, like all 

 the markings of most of the allied species, when in spirits of 

 wine. The plates of the spiracles are pale dull yellow. 



An adult male of this very distinct Clubiona was captured by myself 



