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extremity, which is rounded; the lip is longer than broad, and its figure is nearly quad¬ 
rangular. These parts are of a reddish-brown colour. The sternum is oval, glossy, and has 
small eminences on the sides, opposite to the legs; it is of a yellowish-brown hue, with dark, 
reddish-brown spots on the lateral margins. The legs are provided with hairs and sessile 
spines, a row of the latter occurring on each side of the inferior surface of the tibiae and 
metatarsi of the first and second pairs, and their colour is yellowish-brown ; the fourth pair is 
the longest, then the second, and the third pair is rather the shortest; each tarsus is 
terminated by two curved, pectinated claws, and below them there is a small scopula. The 
short palpi have a small, curved claw at their extremity, and their colour is similar to that of 
the legs. The abdomen is oviform, hairy, slightly depressed, and projects over the base of 
the cephalo-thorax; it is of a yellowish-brown hue, with a dark, reddish-brown band on the 
upper part, which extends nearly half of its length from the anterior extremity along the 
middle, the interval between the band and the spinners being occupied by a series of trian¬ 
gular spots of the same colour; on each side of the medial line there is an irregular, 
longitudinal, dark, reddish-brown band whose continuity is somewhat interrupted; the 
margins of the sexual organs and three narrow bands, situated between them and the spinners, 
have a dark, reddish-brown tint; and that of the branchial opercula is yellowish-white. 
The abdomen of the male is slender and of a dark-brown hue above, with two or three 
yellowish-brown lines extending from the anterior part about a third of its length, and between 
these lines and the spinners there are two parallel rows of oval spots of the same colour, 
which are inclined towards each other and decrease in size as they approach the anus. The 
maxillae are very gibbous at the base, and greatly enlarged at the extremity. The cubital 
and radial joints of the palpi are short; the latter is rather the smaller, and has a large, dark- 
brown apophysis at its extremity, on the outer side, which is prolonged into a slender, much 
curved, finely pointed spine; the digital joint is oval, convex and hairy externally, concave 
within, comprising the palpal organs; these organs, which are moderately developed, have a 
spine-like process curved from the inner side round their extremity, and are of a red-brown 
colour. In other particulars the male closely resembles the female. 
Clubiona fucata , Blackwall, which is identical with the Clubiona comta of M. Koch, is 
placed by M. Walckenaer among the synonyma of Clubiona corticalis (‘ Hist. Nat. des Insect. 
Apt.,’ tom. iv, p. 439); yet it is not only very much smaller than that species, from which it 
differs decidedly in colour and in the relative size of its eyes, but the structure of the palpi 
and of the palpal organs also is widely dissimilar in the male. 
This rare spider has been taken in the woods of Denbighshire and Caernarvonshire; also 
in Middesex, Berwickshire, and in the north of Lancashire. It conceals itself among the 
foliage of trees and shrubs in summer, constructing a cell of white silk on the inferior surface 
of a leaf, the sides of which are curved towards it and retained in that position by fine lines 
of silk. The male has the palpal organs completely developed in June, and in that month 
females may be seen having the abdomen greatly distended with eggs. 
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