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DRASSIDiE. 
Clubiona nutrix. PL VIII, fig. 85. 
Clubiona nutrix, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 601. 
— — Latr., Gen. Crust, et Insect., tom. i, p. 92. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 96. 
Drassus maxillosus, Wider, Museum Senckenb., Band i, p. 209, taf. 14, fig. 8. 
Anyphama nutrix, Koch, Uebers. des Araclm. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 18. 
Cheiracanthium, nutrix, Koch, Die Arachn., Band vi, p. 9, tab. 182, figs. 434, 436. 
M. Walckenaer states that Clubiona nutrix varies in length from six to nine lines (‘ Hist. 
Nat. des. Insect. Apt.,’ t. i, p. 601). 
The subjoined description is abridged from the German of M. Koch ( c Die Arachn., 
Band vi, pp. 9—11). 
The legs of the female are long, provided with hairs and erect spines, and are of a pale- 
yellow colour, the extremity of the tarsi having a blackish hue; the first pair is the longest, 
then the fourth, and the third pair is the shortest. The palpi are of the usual structure, and 
resemble the legs in colour. The cephalo-thorax is somewhat oval, slightly depressed in 
front, convex, and glossy, with an oblong indentation in the medial line of the posterior 
region; its colour is yellow, tinged with olive; the anterior part has a pale-reddish tint, 
and the lateral margins are of a light-yellow hue. The eyes are black; those of the anterior 
row are situated immediately above the frontal margin of the cephalo-thorax, and the inter¬ 
mediate pair is seated on an oval, transverse, brown spot. The falces are rather long, 
powerful, densely fringed with hairs on the inner surface, and of a reddish-yellow hue, except 
at the extremity, which is blackish; the colour of the fang is red, being darkest at the base. 
The sternum is slightly convex, glossy, and of a yellow hue. The abdomen is oviform, 
convex, provided with fine hairs, and of a greenish-yellow colour, reticulated with green; 
a rusty-brown band, which tapers to its extremity, extends along the middle of the anterior 
half of the upper part; on each side of this band there is a border of a rusty-reddish hue, 
and between it and the spinners a large, rusty-red patch occurs; the under part is somewhat 
darker than the sides, along which a stripe, composed of small, yellowish spots, extends; and 
the branchial opercula (“ die Bauchschilde vor den Luftlochern ) have a light-yellow tint. 
The male is found in a state of maturity in June and July. Its cephalo-thorax resembles 
that of the female in form and colour, but the lateral margins are lighter. The falces are 
very long, divergent at their anterior part, and of a rusty-red hue, with black extremities. 
The legs and palpi are very long, and have an ochreous-yellow tint. The humeral and radial 
joints of the palpi are somewhat curved, and the latter projects a curved, brown-red 
apophysis from its extremity, on the outer side; the digital joint is long, convex and hairy, 
curved upwards at the extremity, and has a long, fine, pointed spine at its base, on the outer 
side, which is curved backwards; this joint has a reddish-brown hue, and forms a cover 
above the palpal organs, which are moderately developed, somewhat oval, and of a chestnut 
colour. The sternum is of a rusty-yellow hue, with a broad, brown border. The abdomen 
