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forwards, from its outer side, a very large, curved apophysis, whose yellowish-brown extremity 
is slightly bifid; the digital joint is of an elongated oval form, convex and hairy externally, 
concave within, comprising the palpal organs; these organs are highly developed, very pro¬ 
tuberant at the base, which is convex and glossy, and have a small, prominent process at 
their extremity; they are of a dark-brown colour, faintly tinged with red. The eyes are dis¬ 
posed on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax in two short, transverse, slightly curved, 
concentric rows, whose convexity is directed backwards, the intermediate ones of the anterior- 
row being rather the smallest and darkest of the eight. The cephalo-thorax is oval, convex, 
glossy, with slight furrows on the sides converging towards a narrow indentation in the medial 
line; it is sparingly clothed with hoary hairs, some of which are disposed in three faint rows 
on each side, along the furrows; the falces are conical, vertical, and armed with a few 7 minute 
teeth on the inner surface; the maxillae are powerful, enlarged where the palpi are inserted, 
greatly dilated at the base, rounded at the extremity, and inclined towards the lip, which is 
longer than broad and rounded at the apex; the sternum is heart-shaped. These parts are of 
a brown colour; the margins of the cephalo-thorax, and the base of the lip being much the 
darkest. The abdomen is oviform, glossy, thinly clothed with short hairs, convex above, 
projecting a little over the base of the cephalo-thorax, and is of a dark-brown colour, the 
under part being the palest; there is a spot on each side of the anterior extremity, a fine line 
extending thence along the middle of the upper part, nearly half of its length, and an oblique, 
transverse, curved line, whose extremities pass along the sides to the under part, and wdiose 
middle portion, abruptly curved forwards, is bisected by the point of the fine medial line; 
these marks are somewhat obscure, of a deep, yellowish-brown hue, and are sparingly covered 
with hoary hairs; a few white hairs form a minute spot immediately above the spinners, and 
the colour of the branchial opercula is brown. 
Two adult males of Drassus propinquus, which is closely allied to Drassus nitens, were 
captured in the spring of 1853; one running on a public road near Llanrwst, and the other 
m a window of the sitting-room at Oakland. In the summer of the same year Mr. R. H. 
Meade took an adult male of this species in Norfolk. 
Genus CLUBIONA ( Latreille ). 
Eyes disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax in two transverse rows ; they do 
not differ greatly in size. 
Maxilla long, straight, and enlarged at the extremity. 
Lip long and somew'hat oval, or truncated at the extremity, and nearly quadrangular. 
Leys robust, varying in their relative length in different species. 
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