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CINIFLONIML 
This spider bears a close resemblance to Ciniflo atrox, but it is larger and darker-coloured 
than that species, from which it differs also in having an obscure, longitudinal band, of a dull- 
yellowish colour, extending from the anterior part of the upper side of the abdomen towards 
its middle; this band is encompassed by an irregular, black line, which is broadest at its pos¬ 
terior extremity, and is bordered lateral^ and posteriorly with pale-yellow ; the sides and under 
part are sometimes marked with minute, whitish spots, those on the latter forming four lon¬ 
gitudinal row's; and the sexual organs are smaller proportionally and less conspicuous than 
those of Ciniflo atrox. The inferior tarsal claw is provided with a fine, curved tooth on each 
side, near its base. 
The male is smaller than the female, the cephalic region is paler, and the legs are not 
only longer and slenderer, but their relative length is different, the second pair surpassing 
the fourth. The palpi and palpal organs are similar in structure to those of the male of 
Ciniflo atrox, but the apophysis connected with the radial joint in front, towards the inner side, 
is much more slender, curved, and pointed; and the small, curved process near the middle of 
the palpal organs, which are darker coloured and proportionally less developed, is not so con¬ 
tiguous to the large, protuberant part, which is situated nearer to the inner side and-is more 
prominent at its extremity. Notwithstanding the superior size of this spider, it is very 
commonly confounded with Ciniflo atrox , to which it makes a near approximation in form, 
colour, and economy ; both species are found in the same localities, and are abundantly 
distributed throughout the kingdom. 
Ciniflo ferox. PI. IX, fig. 90. 
Clubiona ferox, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 606. 
Amaurobius ferox, Koch, Die Araclm., Band vi, p. 41, tab. 191, figs. 460, 461. 
Length of the female, ^ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, 1th, breadth, 1th; 
breadth of the abdomen, T 3 s ths ; length of an anterior leg, §rds; length of a leg of the third 
pair, i. 
The eyes are pellucid, and are disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax in two 
transverse rows, the anterior row being situated immediately above the frontal margin; the 
four intermediate eyes form a traperzoid whose anterior side is the shortest, and those of each 
lateral pair, which are the largest, are seated obliquely on a tubercle. The cephalo-thorax is 
large, convex, glossy, compressed before, rounded on the sides, which are marked with furrow’s 
converging towards an indentation in the medial line, and somewhat depressed and rounded 
in front; it is sparingly clothed with fine hairs, and of a yellowish-brown colour, the anterior 
part and the lateral furrows being much the darkest. The falces are powerful, conical, 
vertical, convex in front, near the base, armed with teeth on the inner surface, and have a 
brown-black hue. The maxillse are enlarged and rounded at the extremity, and slightly 
inclined towards the lip, which is longer than broad, dilated about the middle, and truncated 
