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CINIFLONIDiE. 
Genus ERGATIS (1 Blackmail). 
Eyes nearly equal in size, disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax in two 
transverse rows ; the intermediate ones of both rows form a square, and those of each lateral 
pair are placed obliquely on a tubercle near to each other. 
Maxilla convex at the base, somewhat dilated near the middle, rounded at the extremity, 
which is more abruptly curved on the inner than on the outer side, and inclined towards the 
lip. 
Lip large, triangular, acute, or rounded at the apex. 
Legs rather short; the first pair is the longest, then the second, and the third pair is the 
shortest. 
Ekgatis benigna. PI. IX, fig. 93. 
Ergatis benigna, Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xviii, p. 608. 
— ■— Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 99. 
Theridion benignum, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 337. 
— -— Sund., Yet. Acad. Handl., 1831, p. 122. 
Dictyna benigna, Sund., Consp. Arachn., p. 16. 
;■ r — — Koch, Die Arachn., Band iii, p. 27, tab. 83, figs. 184, 185. 
— — Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 12. 
Clubiona parvula, Blackw., Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag., third series, vol. iii, p. 437. 
Drassus parvulus, Blackw., Research, in Zool., p. 337. 
Titulus 15, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl., De Aran., p. 55. 
Length of the female, igths of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, T ' f th, breadth, 5 ' 5 th; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of an anterior leg, 4th; length of a leg of the 
third pair, |th. 
" The cephalo-thorax is compressed before, very convex in the cephalic region, but 
depressed and rounded in front; the sides and posterior part are depressed, the former being 
marked with furrows, which converge towards the middle ; it is of a very dark-brown colour, 
with five lines of white hairs on the anterior convexity, which unite at their extremities ; the 
space below the eyes and the base of the falces are also supplied with white hairs. The 
falces are powerful, conical, vertical, and armed with a few teeth on the inner surface ; the 
maxillae are strong, and inclined towards the lip, which is rounded at the apex; the sternum 
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