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with streaks, spots, and annuli of a deeper shade; the tarsi are terminated by three claws of 
the usual structure, below which there are several smaller ones. The palpi are short, and 
resemble the legs in colour. The abdomen is short, broad, sparingly clothed with hairs, 
convex above, projecting over the base of the cephalo-thorax; the upper part is of a dark, 
red-brown colour, freckled with numerous minute spots of a lighter hue, and near the 
anterior extremity, on each side of the medial line, there is a large, yellowish-white spot; the 
sides are paler than the back, and along the middle of the under part a broad, dark, reddish- 
brown band extends, which comprises two curved, yellowish-white lines, whose concavities 
are directed towards each other; the colour of the branchial opercula is dark, reddish-brown. 
The specimen from which the above description was made had the digital joint of the palpi 
very tumid, but the palpal organs were not developed, clearly demonstrating that it had to 
undergo its final change of integument before it arrived at maturity. 
This distinctly marked spider was taken at Broadstairs, in Kent, in the month of 
September, by Mr. F. Walker, and occupies a place in his cabinet. 
Epeira umbratica. PI. XXIV, fig. 241. 
Ep'eira umbratica, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 66. 
— — Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 238. 
— — Hahn, Die Arachn., Band ii, p. 24, tab. 46, fig. 112. 
— — Koch, Uebers des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 2. 
— — Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 127. • 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band xi, p. 128, tab. 389, figs. 930, 931. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. x, 
p. 182. 
— umbraticola, Latr,, Gen. Crust, et Insect., tom. i, p. 105. 
Titulus 9, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl. De Aran., p. 44, tab. 1, fig. 9. 
Length of the female, ~ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, ith, breadth, gth ; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^ths; length of an anterior leg, i„ths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, ^ths. 
The abdomen is somewhat oviform, greatly depressed, thinly clothed with hairs, and 
projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax ; on the upper part there is a large, oval space, of 
a very dark-brown colour, which tapers to the spinners, and whose sinuous lateral margins are 
almost black; within the oval space, on each side of the medial line, there is a longitudinal 
series of five or six indentations, and exterior to it, but following its sinuosities, there is an 
obscure, whitish line; the sides, which have a brown tint, are palest at their superior margin; 
a few dull-yellow spots form a curve above the spinners; and the under part has a brownish- 
black hue, with a yellowish, curved spot on each side of the medial line; a depressed, oval 
process, directed backwards, is connected with the anterior part of the sexual organs, which, 
with the branchial opercula, are of a dark-brown colour. The cephalo-thorax is slightly 
convex, compressed before, broadly truncated in front, rounded on the sides, sparingly clothed 
