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claw at their extremity, and resemble the legs in colour. The abdomen is oviform, hairy, 
slightly depressed, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a dark, reddish- 
brown hue, the medial line of the anterior half of the upper part being the darkest; the 
spinners are prominent and of a dark-brown colour; and the branchial opercula have a pale, 
red-brown tint. 
The sexes differ very little in colour, but the male is smaller than the female. The 
cubital and radial joints of the palpi are short; the latter has a large apophysis at its 
extremity, which tapers to a bifid termination curved in front of the digital joint, a strong, 
obtuse process occurring within the curve, near its base; the digital joint is oval, convex and 
hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are highly developed, 
complicated in structure, with a prominent, obtuse, corneous process near their extremity, 
and a curved, pointed spine, directed outwards, extending nearly to the termination of 
the joint; their colour is very dark brown. 
M. Walckenaer has confounded this species with Clubiona amarantha ( £ Hist. Nat. des 
Insect. Apt.,’ tom. iv, p. 439), from which it differs in magnitude, in colour, in the relative 
size of its eyes, and, as regards the male, in the structure of its palpi and palpal organs. It 
commonly occupies a cell of compact white silk, constructed on the inferior surface of leaves 
and of lichens growing on the trunks of trees in the wrnods of North Wales. Though not 
particularly active in its general movements, yet it can leap with agility. 
Specimens of Clubiona brevipes, taken in Berwickshire, were received from Mr. J. Hardy 
in 1858. 
Clubiona comta. PI. VII, fig. 81. 
Clubiona comta, Koch, Die Arachn., Band vi, p. 16, tab. 185, fig. 440. 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band x, p. 129, tab. 358, fig. 841. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, p. 44. 
— compta, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 478. 
— fucata, Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xviii, p. 605. 
Length of the female, T 3 B ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^th, breadth, T ‘ 5 th ; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of a posterior leg, ,th; length of a leg of the third 
pair, B th. 
The eyes are seated on black spots, and form two transverse, parallel rows on the anterior 
part of the cephalo-thorax, the anterior row, which is the shorter, being situated immediately 
above the frontal margin; the intermediate eyes of both rows describe a trapezoid whose 
shortest side is before, those of the anterior row being the smallest of the eight. The cephalo- 
thorax is oval, convex, glossy, and thinly covered with short hairs; the colour of the anterior 
part is reddish-brown, that of the sides and posterior part greenish-brown, and a fine, dark- 
brown line occurs on the lateral margins. The falces are powerful, conical, and rather pro¬ 
minent; the maxillae are long, straight, enlarged where the palpi are inserted, and at the 
