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base; and the lip is triangular and rounded at the apex. These parts are of a pale-yellow 
colour, the base of the lip and a spot near the base of the falces, in front, having a red-brown 
hue. The sternum is heart-shaped, and of a brownish-red tint, mottled with pale-yellow 
The legs are long, and are provided with hairs and sessile spines ; they are of a pale-yellow 
colour, the anterior extremities of the femora and tibiae of the first and second pairs having a 
brownish-red hue; the second pair is the longest, then the first, and the fourth pair is the 
shortest; each tarsus is terminated by two curved, pectinated claws, and below them there 
is a small scopula. The palpi, which are short, are of a pale-yellow colour, and have a 
curved, pectinated claw at their extremity. The abdomen is broader in the posterior than in 
the anterior region, pointed at the spinners, somewhat convex above, and projects a little 
over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a pale-yellow colour, with a brownish-red band, 
which is pointed before, extending from the anterior extremity, along the middle of the upper 
part, more than a third of its length; and from each side of the posterior extremity of this 
hand a series of oblique, graduated lines of the same colour extends nearly to the spinners; 
the sides are of a red-brown hue, marked irregularly with pale-yellow; the under part is of a 
pale-yellow colour, freckled with red-brown, a broad band of the latter hue extending along 
the middle; and the sexual organs have a reddish-brown tint. 
The male is darker coloured than the female, and its abdomen is smaller; the design also 
on its upper part is less distinctly marked. The palpi are long ; the radial is larger than the 
cubital joint, and projects two strong apophyses from its extremity, one situated on the outer 
side and the other underneath ; the digital joint is oval, convex and hairy externally, concave 
within, comprising the palpal organs, which are highly developed, wdth a long, fine, pointed, 
black spine curved from the inner side round their extremity. 
Both sexes of this species, which were captured at Southgate in July, 1849, are in 
Mr. Walker’s cabinet. Professor Sundevall states (‘Vet. Acad. Handl.,’ 1832, p. 224), that 
in July the female deposits numerous yellow eggs, not adherent among themselves, in a 
depressed, white cocoon, which is attached to the trunks of trees or to walls by a small, 
round, dense, white web. 
Philodromus oblongus. PI. V, fig. 60. 
Philodromvs oblongus, "Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 558. 
— ■— Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 123. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 38. 
— trilineatus, Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 227. 
Thotnisus oblongus, Latr., Gen. Crust, et Insect., tom. i, p. 112. 
—• — Hahn, Die Araclin., Band i, p. 110, tab. 28, fig. 82. 
Thanalus trilineatus, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 28. 
Length of the female, |ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, <jth, breadth, T ’ u th; 
