CINIFLO. 
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ClNIFLO HUMIL1S. PI. IX, fig. 92. 
Ciniflo humilis, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xvi, 
p. 120. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xx, 
p. 499. 
Length of the female, ^th of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, 2 ‘,th, breadth, 3 ' 0 th; 
breadth of the abdomen, T ' 5 th; length of an anterior leg, 3 th; length of a leg of the third 
pair, nth. 
The four intermediate eyes describe a trapezoid, the two anterior ones, which form its 
shortest side, being much the smallest and darkest of the eight. The cephalo-thorax is 
convex, glossy, compressed before, rounded on the sides, and has an indentation in the 
medial line; it is of a brown colour, with longitudinal lines in the cephalic region, oblique 
streaks on the sides, and lateral margins of a brownish-black hue. The falces are conical, 
vertical, armed with a few teeth on the inner surface, and, with the maxillae, which are 
enlarged at the extremity, and slightly inclined towards the lip, have a pale-brown hue. The 
lip is dilated about the middle, and truncated at the apex ; and the sternum is heart-shaped. 
These parts are of a dark-brown colour, the former being paler at the extremity. The 
legs are moderately long, provided with hairs, and of a yellowish-brown hue, with brownish- 
black annuli; each tarsus is terminated by three claws ; the two superior ones are curved 
and pectinated, and the inferior one is inflected near its base. The palpi resemble the legs 
in colour, but are without annuli. The abdomen is oviform, thinly clothed with hairs, 
convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a pale, yellowish- 
brown colour, with a series of angular lines of a brownish-black hue, whose vertices are 
directed forwards, and whose extremities are enlarged, extending along the middle of the 
upper part; this series of angles is bisected by a brownish-black, longitudinal line, which is 
enlarged and somewhat triangular at its anterior extremity; the sides are closely reticulated 
with brown lines; two brown bands extend along the under part to a transverse bar of the 
same hue, near the spinners; and the sexual organs are of a red-brown colour. 
A specimen of this small species of Ciniflo, which is provided with eight spinners and 
calamistra, was captured by Mr. R. H. Meade in Buckinghamshire, in August, 1854 ; two 
adult females have also been received from the Rev. Hamlet Clark, who took them in 
Northamptonshire. 
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