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AGELENIDiE. 
Agelena gracilipes. PI. X, fig. 104. 
Agelena gracilipes, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. iii, 
p. 97. 
Length of the male, ^th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, T ‘ B th, breadth, J,th; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of a posterior leg, 5 5 5 ths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, |,ths. 
The cephalo-thorax is convex, glossy, slightly compressed before, rounded and depressed 
on the sides, which are marked with furrows converging towards a slight, narrow indentation 
in the medial line; it is of a dark-brown colour, tinged with dull-yellow, especially in the 
medial line, the lateral margins being the darkest. The eyes are disposed on the anterior 
part of the cephalo-thorax in two transverse, curved rows, whose convexity is directed back¬ 
wards ; the intermediate eyes of both rows form a trapezoid, whose shortest side is before, 
those of the anterior row, which is rather the less curved, being the smallest of the eight. 
The falces are conical and vertical; the maxillae are short, convex near the base, rounded at 
the extremity, and slightly inclined towards the lip ; and the sternum is heart-shaped. These 
parts are of a brownish-yellow colour, the base of the falces being the brownest. The lip is 
nearly quadrate, being rather broader at the base than at the apex, and has a dark-brown 
hue. The legs are long, slender, provided with hairs and sessile spines, two parallel 
rows of the latter occurring on the inferior surface of the tibiae and metatarsi of the first and 
second pairs, and are of a dull-yellow colour, with the exception of the genual joint, tibia, and 
metatarsus of the first and second pairs, which have a very dark-brown hue, the genual joint 
being the palest; each tarsus is terminated by two curved, pectinated claws. The palpi have 
a dull-yellow hue; the cubital and radial joints are short, and the latter projects a brown, 
pointed apophysis from its extremity, on the outer side; the digital joint is oval, convex 
and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are moderately 
developed, rather prominent, not very complicated in structure, with a small, curved, black 
spine at their extremity, and are of a dull-yellow coloui’, tinged with brown. The abdomen 
is oviform, thinly clothed with hairs, convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo- 
thorax ; it has a brownish-black hue on the upper part, with an obscure mark of a 
quadrilateral figure, and yellow-brown colour, at its anterior extremity ; and between this mark 
and the spinners there is a series of obscure, curved, yellow-brown lines, having their con¬ 
vexity directed forwards ; the under part is of a yellowish-brown colour, strongly tinged with 
dark-brown at its posterior extremity, and the spinners, which are short, have a pale- 
yellow hue. 
The Rev. 0. P. Cambridge took this spider at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, in Sep¬ 
tember, 1858. 
