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outer margin is the palest; on the sides there are oblique, brownish-black and yellowish- 
brown streaks somewhat confusedly blended, and the colour of the under part and of the 
spinners is brownish-black, the former comprising two longitudinal, yellowish-white lines, 
and two spots of the same hue occurring on each side of the latter ; a prominent, brownish- 
black process directed backwards is connected with the sexual organs; and the colour of the 
branchial opercula is dark-brown. 
The male is smaller than the female, but it resembles her in colour. A slightly curved, 
conical, pointed process projects at right angles from the extremity of the coxae of the 
anterior legs, on the under side. The cubital joint of the palpi has two long bristles at the 
extremity of its upper surface, which are directed forwards ; the radial joint projects a large, 
obtuse, dark-brown apophysis from its inner side, and a smaller, pointed one from its outer 
side ; the digital joint is oval, with a large, obtuse, glossy process at its base, which is curved 
outwards; it is of a dark-brown colour, convex and hairy externally, concave within, com¬ 
prising the palpal organs, which are very highly developed, complicated in structure, with 
several strong, prominent processes on the under side, and are of a dark-brown colour par¬ 
tially tinged with yellowish-brown ; the convex sides of the digital joints are directed towards 
each other. 
Specimens of this species were captured in Dorsetshire, and in the New Eorest, 
Hampshire, by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, in 1857 and 1858 ; and in the latter year an 
immature male, taken in Leicestershire, which had to undergo its final ecdysis, was received 
from Mr. R. H. Meade. 
Epeira fusca. PI. XXVI, fig. 252. 
Epeira fusca, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 84. 
— — Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 127. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. x, . 
p. 186. 
— Menardi, Latr., Gen. Crust, et Insect,, tom. i, p. 108. 
Meta fusca, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 7. 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Baud viii, p. 118, tab. 285, figs. 685—687. 
Length of the female, ^ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, 1th, breadth, 1th; 
breadth of the abdomen, „- t ths ; length of an anterior leg, l^ths ; length of a leg of the third 
pair, Jths. 
The legs are long, provided with numerous erect, black spines, and of a red-brown hue, 
with broad, brownish-black annuli; each tarsus is terminated by three claws of the usual 
structure, and below them there are several smaller ones. The palpi resemble the legs in 
colour, and have a curved, pectinated claw at their extremity. The cephalo-thorax is large, 
convex, glossy, compressed before, truncated in front, rounded on the sides, and has a large 
indentation in the medial line ; it is of a reddish-brown colour, with brownish-black lateral 
