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pair is the shortest. Sometimes this species has the abdominal fascia brown, and the sides 
jet-black. 
Mr. G. C. Hyndman detected a specimen of this Agelena among grass at Cranmore. 
Agelena elegans. PI. X, fig. 99. 
Agelena elegans, Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xviii, p. 619. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 101. 
— — Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. iv, p. 463. 
Hahnia pratensis, Koch, Die Arachn., Band viii, p. 64, tab. 270, fig. 639. 
Length of the female, gth of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, T ’ 5 th, breadth, Ath; 
breadth of the abdomen, T ' B th; length of a posterior leg, B th; length of a leg of the third 
pair, )th. 
The cephalo-thorax is compressed before, rounded on the sides, which are depressed and 
marked with furrows converging towards an indentation in the middle, and there is a row of 
long hairs, directed forwards, in the medial line; the falces are strong, conical, armed with a 
few very minute teeth on the inner surface, and inclined towards the sternum, which is broad 
and heart-shaped ; the maxillae are short, gibbous at the base, and slightly inclined towards the 
lip, which is nearly quadrate, being rather broader at the base than at the extremity; the 
fourth pair of legs is the longest, and the other pairs are almost equal in length. These parts 
and the palpi are glossy, and of a yellowish-red colour, the base of the lip being the darkest. 
Each tarsus is terminated by three claws; the two superior ones are curved and pectinated, 
and the inferior one is inflected near its base; and the palpi have a curved claw at their 
extremity. The intermediate eyes of the anterior row are the largest of the eight. The 
abdomen is short, broad, thickly covered with hairs, somewhat larger at the posterior than at 
the anterior extremity, convex above, projecting over the base of the cephalo-thorax ; its 
colour is very dark-hrown, approaching to black, the under part being the palest; along the 
middle of the upper part a series of very obscure, angular lines of a lighter hue extends, 
whose vertices are directed forwards; and on each side of the anterior part, near its union 
with the cephalo-thorax, there is a blackish spot of an oval form; the colour of the spinners 
is yellowish-red; they are arranged in a transverse row immediately below the anus, and the 
exterior ones, which are the longest, are triarticulate and have the spinning-tubes disposed on 
the inferior surface of the terminal joint; the branchial opercula have a yellowish-white 
tint. 
The male is smaller than the female, but it resembles her in colour. The humeral joint 
of the palpi has a curved, pointed, yellowish-red process on the under side, near the middle; 
the cubital and radial joints are short; the former is much the larger, very gibbous above, 
and has a small, pointed, blackish apophysis near its extremity, on the outer side; the latter 
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