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EPEIR1DA5. 
tudinal, yellowish-white line, whose continuity is sometimes interrupted, and an oblong spot 
of the same hue occurs in the middle of the under part; the colour of the branchial opercula 
is a dark reddish-brown. 
According to M. Koch, the sexes are marked nearly alike, but the female is much the 
larger, and its legs are shorter than those of the male. 
An adult male of this species was captured at Piercefield, near Chepstow, in Monmouth¬ 
shire, in the autumn of 1853, by Mr. F. Walker, and was forwarded by him to Mr. R. H. 
Meade, from w r hom it was received in December, in the same year. 
Epeira adianta. PI. XXV, fig. 251. 
Epeira adianta, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 52. 
— segementata, Sund. Yet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 247. 
Miranda pictilis, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 4. 
— —— Koch, Die Arachn., Band v, p. 50, tab. 158, fig. 369. 
Length of the female, ^nds of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, ~th, breadth, 
^th; breadth of the abdomen, |th; length of an anterior leg, fths ; length of a leg of the 
third pair, J^nds. 
The cephalo-thorax is compressed before, rounded on the sides, thinly clothed with hairs, 
convex, glossy, and has an indentation in the medial line ; it is of a brownish-yellow colour, 
with a narrow, longitudinal, black band in the middle, and another, tinged with brown, ex¬ 
tending above and nearly parallel to each lateral margin. The falces are powerful, conical, 
vertical, armed with a few teeth on the inner surface, and of a brownish-yellow colour, their 
extremity and a streak at the base, towards the outer side, having a brown-black hue. The 
maxillae are short, straight, and enlarged and rounded at the extremity; the lip is semi¬ 
circular; and the sternum is heart-shaped, with minute eminences on the lateral margins, 
opposite to the legs. These parts have a brownish-black hue, the border of the maxillae and 
the apex of the lip having a brownish-yellow tint. The legs are moderately long and robust, 
provided with hairs and erect spines, and are of a brownish-yellow colour faintly tinged with 
red, the extremities of the joints and the outer side of the upper part of the femora of the 
first and second pairs having a brown hue; the first pair is the longest, then the second, and 
the third pair is the shortest; each tarsus is terminated by the customary number of claws, 
and the palpi, which are short, and resemble the legs in colour, have a curved, pectinated 
claw at their extremity. The four intermediate eyes form a square, and those of each lateral 
pair are seated on a small tubercle and are almost in contact. The abdomen is oviform, 
sparingly clothed with hairs, convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; 
a band of a yellowish-white hue, broad and strongly dentated at its anterior part, but tapering 
to the spinners, extends along the middle ; this band, which comprises an obscure, longi¬ 
tudinal, yellowish-brown streak whose margins are the darkest, is bordered by a dentated 
brown-black band, exterior to which there is a broad, dentated, yellowish-brown band whose 
