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DRASSIM. 
CLiUBIONA HO LOS ERICH A. PI. VII, fig- 75. 
Clubiona holosericea, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 590. 
_ — Latr., Gen. Crust, et Insect.; tom. i, p. 91. 
_ -— Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1831, p. 142. 
_ — Hahn, Die Arachn., Band i, p. 112, tab. 29, fig. 84. 
_ — Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p.<19. 
_ — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 42. 
Length of the female, Aths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, £th, breadth, |th; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^ths; length of a posterior leg, T; length of a leg of the third 
pair, fths. 
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The eyes form two transverse rows on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax; the 
posterior row is the longer, and the interval between the intermediate eyes is greater than the 
space which separates them from the lateral ones of the same row; the anterior row is 
situated very near to 1 the frontal margin, and the intermediate eyes are the largest of the 
eight. The cephalo-thorax is somewhat oval, convex, broadly rounded in front, thinly 
covered with short, silky, grayish hairs, and is of a pale, greenish-brown colour, obscurely 
veined with black ; the anterior part is the brownest, and the lateral margins are black. The 
falces are strong, prominent, subconical, and armed with teeth on the inner surface; the 
maxillre are long, straight, powerful, enlarged where the palpi are inserted, and at the 
extremity; the lip is long, somewhat oval, and slightly hollowed at the apex ; the sternum is 
oval, with small eminences on the sides, opposite to the insertion of the legs, and is supplied 
with long, gray hairs. These parts are black, tinged with brown. The legs are robust, 
provided with hairs and sessile spines, and are of a reddish-brown colour, with longitudinal 
streaks of a lighter shade ; the fourth pair is the longest, then the second, and the third pair 
is the shortest; each tarsus is terminated by two curved, pectinated claws, below which there 
is a small scopula. The palpi resemble the legs in colour, but are darker at the extremity of 
the digital joint, which is armed with a curved claw. The abdomen is of an oblong-oviform 
figure, projecting a little over the base of the cephalo-thorax, and is densely covered with 
short, silky, gray hairs; the sexual organs are of a dark, reddish-brown colour, and the 
branchial opercula have a dull-yellow hue. 
The abdomen of the male differs from that of the female in being slenderer. The radial 
joint of the palpi is rather shorter than the cubital, and projects a large, crescent-shaped 
apophysis from its extremity, on the outer side, which has an obtuse process on the outer side 
of its superior limb; the digital joint is oval, convex and hairy externally, concave within, 
comprising the palpal organs ; these organs are highly developed, not complicated in structure, 
with a short, curved, pointed process at their extremity, and are of a very dark-brown 
colour. 
Clubiona holosericea, in common with other species of the genus, can run securely on the 
