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EPBIRIDiE. 
of a reddish-brown colour. The convex sides of the oval parts of the digital joints are 
directed towards each other. 
M. Walckenaer has disposed of Epeira celata as a synonym of Epeira fusca (‘ Hist. Nat. 
des Insect. Apt.,’ t. iv, p. 471); but it differs materially from that species in size, structure, 
colour, and economy, and has a much closer affinity with Epeira antriada. It inhabits damp 
caverns and hollow banks in Denbighshire and Caernarvonshire, to the sides of which the 
female, in the month of May, attaches a subglobose cocoon of whitish silk of a loose texture, 
measuring about half an inch in diameter; in it she deposits between 200 and 300 spherical 
eggs of a yellow colour, agglutinated together in a lenticular form. 
Epeira inclinata. PI. XXVI, fig. 255. 
Epeira inclinata, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 82. 
— — Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 250. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. x, 
p. 187. 
Zilla reticulata, Koch, Die Arachn., Band vi, p. 142, tab. 214, figs. 532, 533. 
Titulus 1, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl. De Aran., p. 24, tab. 1, fig. 1. 
Length of the female, ^ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, gth, breadth, T Uh ; 
breadth of the abdomen, )th; length of an anterior leg, gths ; length of a leg of the third 
pair, 1th. 
The four intermediate eyes nearly form a square ; the two anterior ones are seated on a 
small prominence, and those of each lateral pair are placed obliquely on a tubercle and are 
almost in contact. The cephalo-thorax is convex, glossy, compressed before, truncated in 
front, rounded on the sides, and has a large indentation in the medial line; it is of a pale 
yellowish-brown colour, with black lateral margins, a black band extending along the middle, 
which is bifid before, and a short streak of the same hue directed backwards from each 
lateral pair of eyes. The falces are powerful, conical, convex near the base, in front, 
somewhat inclined towards the sternum, armed with teeth on the inner surface, and of a 
yellowish-brown hue, with a blackish spot on the frontal convexity. The maxillae are strong, 
straight, enlarged and rounded at the extremity, and have a brownish-black tint, being paler 
towards the inner surface. The lip is nearly semicircular; and the sternum is heart-shaped, 
with prominences on the sides, opposite to the legs. These parts are of a brownish-black 
colour, the latter being rather paler in the medial line. The legs are long, provided with 
hairs, and erect, black spines, and of a yellow-brown hue, with brownish-black spots and dark 
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, pec¬ 
tinated claw at their extremity. The abdomen is oviform, sparingly clothed with short hairs, 
convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; on the upper part there 
is a large, leaf-like mark, having black, sinuous margins, whose anterior part, which is the 
