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TH0MISID7E. 
According to M. Koch, the male is smaller and darker coloured than the female, but its 
legs are longer than hers. The prevailing colour of its palpi is yellowish, that of the digital 
joint being brown; and the palpal organs have a very dark, reddish-brown hue. 
On the 8th of June, 1856, a living adult female of this species was received from 
Mr. R. H. Meade, which had been taken on the trunk of an ash tree in Kent a few days 
previously. This female, about the middle of June, fabricated in a box, in which it was con¬ 
fined, a very slight cocoon of white silk, measuring three eighths of an inch in diameter, and 
deposited in it numerous spherical eggs, of a pale-brown colour, not adherent among them¬ 
selves. 
Philodromus elegans. PI. V, fig. 57. 
Philodromus elegans, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. iii, 
p. 92. 
Length of the female, 4ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo-therax, ^th, breadth, ^th ; 
breadth of the abdomen, Jth ; length of a leg of the second pair, Jj length of a leg of the 
third pair, T 3 B ths. 
The eyes, which are nearly equal in size, are disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo- 
thorax in two transverse, curved rows, forming a crescent whose convexity is directed 
forwards; and the lateral ones are seated on minute tubercles. The cephalo-tliorax is short, 
broad, convex, compressed before, rounded on the sides, clothed with whitish hairs, particu¬ 
larly on the lateral margins, and of a pale-yellowish colour; a broad, dark-brown band 
extends along each side, a narrow, longitudinal one of the, same hue, which is enlaiged near 
its middle, occupies the medial line, and a short, fine, dark-brown streak occurs on each side 
of its anterior extremity. The falces are subconical and vertical; the maxillse are convex 
near the base, obliquely truncated at the extremity, on the outer side, and inclined towards 
the lip, which is triangular and pointed at the apex; and the sternum is heart-shaped. These 
parts are of a vellowish-brown colour, with the exception of the lip, which has a dark-brown 
hue. The legs are long, slender, provided with hairs and spines, and of a yellow-brown hue, 
with red-brown annuli; the second pair is the longest, then the first, and the third pair is the 
shortest; the metatarsi and tarsi have liair-like papillae on their inferior surface, and the 
latter are terminated by two curved, pectinated claws. The palpi are short, and resemble 
the legs in colour. The abdomen is oviform, clothed with short hairs, convex above, notched 
in the middle of the anterior extremity, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; a 
broad, yellowish-brown band extends along the middle of the upper part, the anterior region 
of which comprises a dark-brown, fusiform band, having an angular point on each side, and 
occupying rather more than a third of its length ; this band is bordered laterally with yellowish- 
white, and between it and the spinners there is a series of alternate, short, yellowish-white and 
dark-brown curved bars, whose convexity is directed forwards, a triangular spot of the latter 
hue, having its vertex in contact with the coccyx, terminating the series; the sides are of a 
