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perpendicular surfaces of dry, polished bodies, by means of an adhesive secretion emitted 
from its scopulae. It is most abundant in well-wooded districts, constructing a cell of white 
silk, which serves it for a domicile, on the under side of leaves or behind the exfoliating bark 
of old trees. In June the female spins in this cell a lenticular cocoon of fine, white silk, 
measuring one fourth of an inch in diameter, and deposits in it about 109 spherical eggs of a 
yellowish-white colour, not agglutinated together. From this period she appears to direct her 
attention exclusively to her progeny, constantly remaining on or near the cocoon. 
Mr. J. Hardy has taken this species in Berwickshire. 
Clubiona amaeantha. PI. VII, fig. 76. 
Clubiona amarantha, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 591. 
— — Halm, Die Arachn., Band i, p. 113, tab. 29, fig. 85. 
— — 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, Ath; 
breadth of the abdomen, §th; length of a posterior leg, s 7 s ths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, Aths. 
The eyes are disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax in two transverse rows; 
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 the frontal margin, and the intermediate eyes, which are rather the 
smallest of the eight, form with those of the posterior row a trapezoid whose shortest side is 
before. The cephalo-thorax is somewhat oval, convex, broadly rounded in front, sparingly 
covered with fine, silky hairs, and is of a yellowish-brown colour, with a tinge of red on the 
anterior part, where the eyes are seated. The falces are powerful, conical, rather prominent, 
and provided with long hairs and a few minute teeth on the inner surface; the maxillae are 
long, straight, gibbous near the base, enlarged where the palpi are inserted, and at the 
extremity, which is obliquely truncated and fringed with long hairs on the inner side; the lip 
is moderately long, truncated at the apex, and slightly contracted at the base. These parts 
have a dark-brown hue; the base of the maxillae is the palest, and the falces are tinged with 
red. The sternum is oval, glossy, thinly covered with long hairs, and has eminences on the 
sides, opposite to the legs ; it is of a pale, yellowish-brown colour, with minute, reddish-brown 
spots on the lateral margins. The legs are provided with hairs and sessile spines, and are 
of a pale, yellowish-brown colour; 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 are short, and resemble the legs in colour. The 
abdomen is of an oblong-oviform figure, densely covered with short, silky hairs, and projects a 
little over the base of the cephalo-thorax ; it is of a brownish-red colour, the under part being 
the palest, and has a band of a darker hue extending from the anterior extremity, where there 
