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114 DRASSIDiE. 
length of its legs is different, the first and fourth pairs being equal in longitudinal extent. 
The cubital and radial joints of the palpi are short; the latter is terminated by two apophyses, 
one, which is situated on the inner side, is short and broad, and the other, which is long and 
compressed at its extremity, overlaps the base of the digital joint, in front; the digital joint 
is oval, convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs; they are 
highly developed, complicated in structure, with several strong, curved, pointed processes at 
their extremity, and are of a dark, red-brown colour. 
M. Walckenaer has placed the Drassus signifer of M- Koch, which is specifically identical 
with Drassus sglvestris, among the synonyma of Clubiona ( Drassus ) lapidicolens, supposing it to 
be that species in an immature state (‘ Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt.,’ tom. ii, p. 479). Now as 
adults of both sexes, taken in the woods about Llanrwst, are invariably much smaller than 
Clubiona ( Drassus ) lapidicolens, and also differ from it materially in colour and in structure, 
having the maxillae more curved towards the lip, and all the essential characters of a Drassus 
more highly developed, the name first conferred upon this distinct species is retained. 
In July the female construsts a lenticular cocoon of white silk, of a fine but compact 
texture, measuring three tenths of an inch in diameter, which she places in a cavity formed 
in the earth beneath stones, and lined with silk, depositing in it about 123 whitish eggs of a 
spherical form, not agglutinated together. She is greatly attached to her cocoon, and is with 
difficulty compelled to abandon it. 
A specimen of this spider was captured in Berwickshire by Mr. Hardy, in the spring of 
1849. 
Drassus cupreus. PL VI, fig. 69. 
Drassus cupreus, Blackw., Research, in Zool., p. 345. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 41. 
— rufus, Koch, Die Arachn., Band vi, p. 33, tab. 189, figs. 453, 454. 
Length of the female, |ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, |th, breadth, |th; 
breadth of the abdomen, |th; length of a posterior leg, |; length of a leg of the third 
pair, fths. 
The cephalo-thorax is oval, convex, sparingly covered with short, fine hairs, and marked 
with slight furrows on the sides; the falces are powerful, conical, rather prominent, and armed 
with a few teeth on the inner surface; the maxillae are long, convex at the base, enlarged 
where the palpi are inserted, and at the extremity, which is obliquely truncated on the inner 
side; thev are depressed and contracted in the middle, and are curved towards the lip, which 
is longer than broad, and truncated at the apex ; the sternum is oval, and has small eminences 
on its sides, opposite to the legs; the legs are robust, moderately hairy, and provided with a 
few sessile spines; the fourth pair is the longest, then the first, and the third pair is the 
shortest; each tarsus has hair-like papillae on the under side, and is terminated by two curved, 
