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are highly developed, prominent, complicated in structure, with two long, filiform, black 
spines, connected with semitransparent membrane, curved round the inner side, and are of a 
red-brown colour. 
This species, which bears a strong resemblance to Neriiine rubens, is found under stones 
and on plants growing in woods at Oakland, and Mr. J. Hardy has captured it in Berwickshire. 
The male has the palpal organs fully developed in October. 
Neriene variegata. PI. XIX, fig. 195. 
Neriene variegata , Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xviii, p. 650. 
_ _ Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. ix, 
p. 271. 
Argus variegatus, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. iv, p. ol3. 
Length of the female, T ' 5 th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, Mh, breadth, s 5 nd, 
breadth of the abdomen, £th; length of an anterior leg, &ths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, gth. 
The legs are slender, provided with hairs and a few erect spines, and of a yellowish- 
brown colour, with black annuli; the first and fourth pairs, which are the longest, are equal 
in length, and the third pair is the shortest; 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 
cephalo-thorax is convex, glossy, compressed before, and rounded on the sides, which are 
marked with furrows converging towards an indentation in the medial line ; it is of a yellowish 
brown colour, with blackish margins, a longitudinal row of small, black spots on each side, and 
a black patch of a triangular form, whose vertex is directed backwards, immediately behind 
the eyes, which are seated on black spots. The falces are long, powerful, divergent at the 
extremity, armed with a few teeth on the inner surface, and inclined towards the sternum, 
which is broad and heart-shaped. These parts, with the maxillm, lip, and palpi, have a yel¬ 
lowish-brown hue, the sternum and lip being the darkest. The abdomen is oviform, thinly 
clothed with hairs, very convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is 
of a dull-yellow colour, with a black band in the medial line of the upper part extending 
rather more than a third of its length; the anterior part of the band, which is triangular, has 
its vertex directed forwards, and the posterior part is narrower and somewhat ramified; from 
the termination of the band a longitudinal row of irregular, black spots extends on each side of 
the medial line, a few of which unite immediately above the spinners and form short, cuived, 
tranverse lines; numerous black streaks and patches occur on the sides, and the under part 
and branchial opercula have a dull, yellowish-brown hue ; the sexual organs are of a red-brown 
colour; they are prominent, and have a curved process in connection with them, which is 
greatly enlarged at its extremity. 
The male is rather smaller than the female, but it resembles her in the design formed by 
the distribution of its colours ; the relative length of its legs, however, is different, the anterior 
