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EPEIRIDiE. 
it is transversely striated, curved backwards, recurved at its extremity, and has a glossy 
protuberance on each side of its base; the colour of these organs is yellow-brown, and that of 
the branchial opercula pale-yellow. 
The male, according to M. Koch, has much longer legs than the female, and its colours 
are paler, but the design formed by their distribution is similar in both sexes. Its palpi are 
short, and the colour of its very prominent palpal organs, which are terminated by a small, 
curved, blackish hook, is rust-yellow and browrn intermixed. 
Adult females of this handsome Epeira were captured by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, in 
the summer of 1861, near Tring, in Hertfordshire. 
Epeira ornata. 
Epeira ornata , Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. vi, p. 342; 
and vol. x, p. 185. 
Length of the female, 1th of an inch; length of the eephalo-thorax, 1th, breadth, ^th ; 
breadth of the abdomen, ith; length of an anterior leg, ^ths ; length of a leg of the third 
pair, J,ths. 
The eephalo-thorax is somewhat oval, slightly compressed before, convex, and glossy, 
with an indentation in the medial line; the falces are powerful, conical, vertical, and armed 
with teeth on the inner surface ; the maxillae are short, strong, straight, and greatly enlarged 
at the extremity, which is rounded; the lip is semicircular, but somewhat pointed; the legs 
are robust and provided with hairs and spines; each tarsus is terminated by three claws of 
the usual structure, below which there are several smaller ones ; and the palpi are short, with 
a curved, pectinated claw at their extremity. These parts have a dull-yellow hue tinged with 
red, the extremities of the maxillae and lip being much the palest. The sternum is heart- 
shaped and of a dull-yellow colour marbled with red. The four intermediate eyes nearly 
form a square, the two anterior ones, which are seated on a small protuberance, being rather 
wider apart than the posterior ones; and the eyes of each lateral pair are placed obliquely on 
a tubercle, and are contiguous. The abdomen is oviform, thinly clothed with hairs, convex 
above, projecting over the base of the eephalo-thorax; it is of a fine, bright-red colour, the 
sides and under part being the palest, and has a series of minute indentations of a light-yellow 
hue extending along the upper part, on each side of the medial line ; the branchial opercula 
have a yellow tint; and a long, pale process connected with the anterior margin of the sexual 
organs is directed backwards. 
A specimen of this showy Epeira, in Mr. Francis Walker’s cabinet, was taken in the 
south of England, in April, 1848, but the locality in which it was found is not stated. 
