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border, and has a yellowish-brown hue in the middle. The abdomen is oviform, densely 
covered with hairs, convex above, projecting a little over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is 
of a reddish-brown colour on the upper part, with two angular, black lines, whose vertices are 
directed forwards, situated near the middle, one immediately before the other; the sides and 
posterior extremity are thickly spotted with black; the under part has a yellowish-brown hue, 
with some scattered, black spots, and a black band extending from the sexual organs, along 
the middle, about halfway towards the spinners, where it terminates at a short, transverse 
fold ; the superior spinners are longer than the rest; and the branchial opercula are of a pale- 
yellow hue. 
The male, though it bears a strong general resemblance to the female, presents several 
marked points of difference; it is rather smaller, darker coloured, and the absolute length of 
its legs is greater, an anterior one measuring thirteen tw r enty-fourths of an inch. The 
irregular black band, extending along each side of the cephalo-thorax, comprises three 
yellowish-brown spots, diverging from its upper towards its lower margin. The femora have 
a broad, black annulus at their extremity, the annuli of the first and second pairs of legs 
being the most distinctly marked. The humeral joint of the palpi has a tuft of long, coarse, 
black bristles near its base, on the under side; and the radial joint, which is longer than the 
cubital, has some coarse, black bristles on the upper side, and a brownish-black apophysis, 
somewhat crescent-shaped, with one limb very obtuse and the other acute, placed transversely 
on the outer side of its extremity; the digital joint is oval, of a dark-brown hue, convex and 
hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are highly developed, 
not very complicated in structure, with a small, curved spine at the extremity, on the outer 
side, and are of a dark-brown colour. 
This active spider is of frequent occurrence in the woods of North Wales, running with 
great rapidity among the foliage of the trees, and sometimes concealing itself under the 
lichens which grow upon their trunks and branches. In June the female deposits about 157 
spherical eggs of a pale, yellowish-white colour, not agglutinated together, in a lenticular 
cocoon of white silk of a very fine texture, measuring seven sixteenths of an inch in diameter; 
it is inclosed in a sac of the same material, attached to the inferior surface of a leaf, the sides 
of which are curved downwards, and are held in that position by silken lines connecting them 
with the sac. The female generally places herself on or near the cocoon, but speedily 
abandons it on being disturbed. 
A female of this species was received from Mr. J. Hardy, in 1858, who took it in 
Berwickshire. 
Clubiona domestica. PI. VIII, fig. 84. 
Clubiona domestica, Wider, Museum Senclcenb., Band i, p. 214, taf. 14, fig. 9. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xi, 
p. 115. 
Philoica notata, Koch, Die Arachn., Band viii, p. 55, tab. 268, figs. 631, 632. 
