116 
DRASSIDAL 
Drassus lapidicolens. PI. VI, fig. 70. 
Drassus lapidicolens, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xiv, 
p. 30. 
— lapidicola, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 18. 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band vi, p. 28, tab. 188 (misnumbered 187 in 
the text), figs. 450, 451. 
Clubiona lapidicolens, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., torn, i, p. 598. 
— — Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 479. 
— lapidicola, Latr., Gen. Crust, et Insect., tom. i, p. 91. 
— — Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1831, p. 139. 
— — Hahn, Die Arachn., Band ii, p. 9, tab. 40, fig. 100. 
Length of the male, ^ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, T |ths, breadth, tth ; 
breadth of the abdomen, jth ; length of a posterior leg, yAhs; length of a leg of the third 
pair, T Uhs. 
The cephalo-thorax is large, convex, glossy, sparingly clothed with short hairs, compressed 
before, truncated in front, rounded and somewhat depressed on the sides, and has a narrow 
indentation in the medial line; the falces are long, subconical, prominent, with a tooth-like 
process near the extremity, on the inner side ; the maxillae are powerful, convex at the base, 
enlarged at the extremity, which is obliquely truncated and fringed with long hairs on the 
inner side, and have a large, transverse, oblique furrow near the middle; they are somewhat 
curved towards the lip, which is longer than broad, and rounded at the apex; the sternum is 
oval, with small eminences on the sides, opposite to the legs; the legs are long, robust, 
provided with hairs and sessile spines, and the metatarsi and tarsi of the first and second pairs 
and the tarsi of the third and fourth pairs have hair-like papillae distributed over their inferior 
surface ; the fourth pair is slightly longer than the first, which surpasses the second, and the 
third pair is the shortest; each tarsus is terminated by two curved, pectinated claws, and below 
them there is a small scopula; the palpi are long, and the radial joint, which is longer than 
the cubital, has a small, black, pointed apophysis at its extremity, in front, towards the outer 
side; the digital joint is of a narrow, elongated-oval form, hairy and slightly convex above, 
compact and pointed at the extremity, and concave near the base, on the under side; this 
concavity comprises the palpal organs, which are small, not complex in structure, with a fine, 
curved, pointed, black spine, directed downwards, and a minute process of the same hue near 
their extremity. These parts are of a red colour, the legs being the palest, and the falces, 
maxillae, lip, anterior part and lateral margins of the cephalo-thorax, and the lateral margins 
of the sternum, which are strongly tinged with brown, much the darkest. The eyes are 
disposed in two transverse, slightly curved rows on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax, 
and are seated on black spots ; the posterior row is the longer, and the two intermediate 
eyes, which have an oval form, and are nearer to each other than they are to the lateral eyes 
of the same row, describe with the intermediate eyes of the anterior row, which is situated 
