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The male is rather smaller and darker coloured than the female, and its legs are longer, 
a leg of the second pair measuring half an inch. The cubital and radial joints of the palpi are 
short; the latter projects a pointed apophysis from its extremity, on the outer side, and a 
shorter and more obtuse one, having two conical protuberances near its base, from the under 
side; the digital joint is oval, convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the 
palpal organs, which are moderately developed, with a curved, spine-like process on the 
inner side, and are of a dark, red-brown colour. 
Philodromus cespiticolis is found among heath, gorse, and juniper bushes, in the vicinity 
of woods in Lancashire, Berwickshire, and the west of Denbighshire. In July the female 
spins a cell of compact, white silk among leaves growing near the extremities of the stems of 
shrubs, curving them about it and retaining them in that position by means of silken lines. 
This cell she occupies, and usually constructs in it two lenticular cocoons, of white silk, of a 
delicate texture, depositing in each from 40 to 100 spherical eggs, of a pale-yellow colour. 
The cocoons frequently differ considerably in size, the larger one measuring about one fourth 
of an inch in diameter. 
Philodromus Clarkii. 
Philodromus Clarkii, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. vi, 
p. 338. 
_ _ Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 37. 
Length of the male, }th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^th, breadth, ^th; 
breadth of the abdomen, £th; length of a leg of the second pair, fths; length of a leg of the 
fourth pair, |th. 
The cephalo-thorax is short, broad, convex, slightly compressed before and rounded on 
the sides ; the falces are small, conical, and vertical; the maxillae are gibbous near the base; 
the lip is triangular; and the sternum is heart-shaped; the legs are long, slender, and pro¬ 
vided with hairs and spines; the second pair is the longest, then the first, and the fourth 
pair is the shortest. These parts are of a red-brown colour, freckled with minute spots of a 
deeper hue. Each tarsus is terminated by two curved, pectinated claws, below which there 
is a small scopula. The palpi are short, and resemble the legs in colour; the radial joint is 
smaller than the cubital, and projects a large and somewhat pointed apophysis from its 
extremity, on the outer side; the digital joint is of an irregular, oval figure, being convex at 
the base and depressed near the middle; it is hairy externally, concave within, comprising 
the palpal organs, which are moderately developed and not very complicated in structure; 
a long, slender, black spine, prominent at its origin on the inner side, is curved round their 
extremity, and they are of a red-brown colour; the concavity of the digital joint does not 
extend to its termination, which is compact. The eyes are disposed on yellowish-white spots 
at the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax, in the form of a crescent, and the lateral eyes are 
