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DRASSIDJE. 
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Clubiona pallens. PL VIII, fig. 82. 
Clubiona pallens, Koch, Die Arachn., Band vi, p. 19, tab. 185, figs. 443, 444. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xiv, 
p. 30. 
Length of the female, Jth of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^th, breadth, - 4 ?th 
breadth of the abdomen, *th; length of a posterior leg, # s ths; length of a leg of the thin 
pair, ^th. 
The cephalo-thorax is somewhat oval, broadly rounded in front, sparingly clothed witl 
fine, short hairs, convex, glossy, and of a yellowish-brown colour, faintly tinged with olive 
green, the anterior part being the darkest. The eyes are disposed in two transverse rows oi 
the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax; the anterior row is situated immediately above the 
frontal margin, and is nearly straight, the two intermediate eyes being the largest and darkest 
of the eight; the posterior row, which is the longer, is curved, with its convexity directed 
backwards, and the two intermediate eyes are separated by a wider internal than that which 
divides them from the lateral eyes of the same row. The falces are strong, conical, prominent* 
and have one or two small teeth and some long hairs on the inner surface; the maxillae are 
long, straight, and enlarged where the palpi are inserted and at the extremity ; and the lip is 
somewhat oval, but truncated and slightly notched at its extremity. These organs are of a 
reddish-brown colour, the falces being much the darkest. The sternum is oval, and has small 
eminences on the lateral margins, opposite to the legs; the legs are moderately long, and 
provided with hairs and sessile spines; 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. These parts, with the palpi, are of a pale, yellowish- 
brown hue. The abdomen is of an oblong-oviform figure, and is covered with short, fine 
hairs; it is convex above, projecting a little over the base of the cephalo-thorax, and of a 
yellowish-red colour, the under part being the palest, and has some black hairs at its anterior 
extremity; the sexual organs have a red-brown tint, and that of the branchial opercula is 
pale-yellow. 
The sexes are similar in colour, but the male is smaller than the female. Its palpi are 
short; the radial is smaller than the cubital joint, and projects a long, dark-brown, pointed 
apophysis from its extremity, on the outer side; the digital joint is of a brown hue, and is as 
broad at the extremity as at the base; it is convex and hairy externally, concave within, 
comprising the palpal organs, which are moderately developed, not very complicated in 
structure, and of a dark-brown colour, tinged with red. 
Three adult females and an adult male of Clubiona pallens were received in October, 
1853, from the Rev. Hamlet Clark, who took them at Holme Fen, in Huntingdonshire, about 
the middle of September, in the same year. 
The Clubiona pallens of M. Hahn (‘Die Arachn.,’ Band ii, p. 10, tab. 40, fig. 101) is not 
included among the synonyma of the above species, as there appears to be much uncertainty 
