PHILODROMUS. 
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dark-brown hue, and have conspicuous, yellowish-white streaks and spots disposed obliquely 
upon them; the under part is of a yellowish-white colour, with minute, dark-brown spots, and 
three longitudinal bands of the same hue, which meet at the spinners, the intermediate one 
being the narrowest of the three. 
Specimens of this handsome Philodromus, which, by its colours and the design resulting 
from their distribution, bears a striking resemblance to certain species of the genus Sphasus, 
were taken in September, 1858, at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, by the Rev. 0. P. 
Cambridge. 
Philodromus cespiticolis. PL V, fig. 58. 
Philodromus cespiticolis, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 555. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. vii, 
p. 452. 
— cespiticolens, Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 123. 
— fusco-marginatus, Sund., Yet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 224. 
Length of the female, ^ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, ? 3 5 ths, breadth, j B ths ; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of a leg of the second pair, fths ; length of a leg of the 
fourth pair, ~ths. 
The legs are long and of a reddish-brown colour, being darkest at the joints; the second 
pair is the longest, then the first, and the third pair is rather longer than the fourth; each 
tarsus is terminated by two curved, pectinated claws, and below them a small scopula is 
situated. The palpi resemble the legs in colour, and have a curved, pectinated claw at their 
extremity. The cephalo-thorax is short, broad, compressed before, rounded on the sides, 
convex and hairy; it is of a reddish-brown colour, with narrow, yellowish-white margins, and 
a broad band, of a pale, yellowish-brown hue, extending along the middle. The eyes are 
arranged on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax in the form of a crescent, those of the 
lateral pairs being the largest. The falces are small, vertical, and of a pale, reddish-brown 
colour. The maxillue are slender; and the lip is triangular and pointed at its apex. These 
parts are of a yellowish-brown hue, the lip having a dark-brown, triangular spot in the medial 
line. The sternum, which is heart-shaped, is of a pale, reddish-brown colour, with margins of 
a darker hue. The abdomen is clothed with short hairs, is broader in the middle than at the 
extremities, and projects a little over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a yellowish-brown 
colour above, with a dark, reddish-brown mark, of a triangular form, in the middle of the 
anterior part, which has its vertex directed forwards; between this triangle and the posterior 
extremity of the abdomen there is a series of transverse, slightly curved lines of the same 
colour, diminishing in length as they approach the anus, and an oblong spot, of a brownish- 
black hue occurs on each side, near the spinners; the colour of the sides is dark, reddish- 
brown; that of the under part is yellowish-white, with three longitudinal, reddish-brown 
bands, which unite near the spinners, and the branchial opercula have a yellow hue. 
