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lateral pair are seated obliquely on a small tubercle, and are almost in contact. The abdomen 
is oviform, thinly clothed with hairs, convex above, projecting over the base of the cephalo- 
thorax; it has a dark-olive hue, the under part being the palest, and the colour of the 
branchial opercula is yellow ; along the middle of the upper part there extends a series of 
obscure, curved, grayish lines, whose convexity is directed forwards; and two indentations 
occur on each side of the medial line, the posterior pair being rather the wider apart. 
Two adult males of this species were received from Mr. R. H. Meade, in June, 1855, one 
of which had been taken in the vicinity of Burton-on-Trent and the other at Hornsea, near 
the east coast of Yorkshire, in the preceding year. 
Neriene Huthwaitii. PI. XVIII, fig. 176. 
Neriene Huthwaitii, Camb., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. vii, 
p. 436. 
Length of the male, ^ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^th, breadth, Jjth; 
breadth of the abdomen, T ' B th; length of an anterior leg, ^ths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, y 5 ths. 
The legs, which are moderately long and provided with hairs, have a brownish-yellow 
hue; the first and fourth pairs are the longest and equal in length, and the third pair is the 
shortest; each tarsus is terminated by three claws; the two superior ones are curved and 
minutely pectinated, and the inferior one is inflected near its base. The palpi resemble the 
legs in colour; the radial is much longer than the cubital joint, and clavate ; the digital joint 
is small, oval, convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, 
which are neither highly developed nor very complicated in structure; they have a straight, 
black spine at their extremity, and are of a yellowish-brown colour. The cephalo-thorax is 
oval, convex, glossy, with slight furrows on the sides, converging towards an indentation in 
the medial line; the falces are long, powerful, conical, vertical, convex in front near the base, 
divergent at the extremity, and armed with teeth on the inner surface; the maxillae are 
obliquely truncated at the extremity on the outer side, and inclined towards the lip. These 
parts are of a yellowish-brown colour, the falces being the darkest, the maxillae the palest, 
and the narrow, lateral margins of the cephalo-thorax having a brown hue. The lip is semi¬ 
circular and prominent at the apex ; and the sternum is broad, glossy, and heart-shaped. 
These parts are of a dark-brown colour. The eyes are seated on black spots on the anterior 
part of the cephalo-thorax; the four intermediate ones form a trapezoid, the two anterior ones, 
which are the smallest and darkest of the eight, constituting its shortest side; the eyes of 
each lateral pair are placed obliquely on a small tubercle, and are contiguous. The abdomen 
is oviform, hairy, moderately convex above, and projects a little over the base of the cephalo- 
thorax ; it is of a dark, greenish-brown colour, that of the branchial opercula being dull-yellow. 
An adult male of this species, received from the Rev. O. P. Cambridge in the autumn 
of 1860, was taken in the summer of the same year at Calke Abbey, in Derbyshire, by 
Mr. Huthwaite. 
