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apex; and the sternum is heart-shaped, with minute prominences on the sides, opposite to the 
legs. These parts are of a dark-brown colour, the falces being the darkest, and the maxilke 
and lip having yellow-brown margins. The legs are robust, provided with hairs and spines, 
and of a pale, yellow-brown hue, with black annuli; and each tarsus is terminated by the 
customary number of claws of the usual structure. The palpi resemble the legs in colour, 
and have a curved, pectinated claw at their extremity. 
The male is smaller and darker coloured than the female, and the conical protuberances 
on its abdomen are less prominent; its legs also, which are longer than hers, have a small, 
pointed process at the extremity of the coxae of the anterior pair, on the under side, and the 
tibiae of the second pair are amply provided with strong spines ; a pointed process occurs 
near the extremity of the falces, in front, and another on the outer side of the maxillae, imme¬ 
diately before the insertion of the palpi. Its palpi are short; the cubital joint has a long 
bristle projecting from its extremity, in front, and the radial joint, which is the stronger of 
the two, has a large, obtuse protuberance on the outer side, and a smaller one on the inner 
side; the digital joint is of an oblong oval form, and has an obtuse, glossy, black process, 
curved outwards, at its base ; it is convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising 
the palpal organs, which are very highly developed, complicated in structure, and of a dark, 
reddish-brown colour. The convex sides of the digital joints are directed towards each 
other. 
In the wooded parts of Denbighshire this rare species occurs on the trunks of trees. It 
pairs in June, and in July the female constructs a subglobose cocoon of light-brown silk of a 
loose texture, about one third of an inch in diameter, which includes her eggs. 
Epeira CONIC a. PI. XXVII, fig. 261. 
Epeira conica, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., t. ii, p. 138. 
— — Latr., Gen. Crust, et Insect., tom. i, p. 109. 
— — Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 248. 
— — Hahn., Die Arachn., Band ii, p. 45, tab. 57, fig. 130. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. x, 
p. 249. 
Singa — Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft., p. 6. 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band xi, p. 145, tab. 392, figs. 943—945. 
Titulus 4, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl. De Aran., p. 32, tab. 1, fig. 4. 
Length of the female from the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax to the extremity of the 
conical abdominal protuberance, 1th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, T Uh, breadth, ,' s th ; 
breadth of the abdomen, 1th; length of an anterior leg, Ird; length of a leg of the third 
pair, fltlis. 
The abdomen has a large, conical protuberance situated near the middle of the upper 
part, which gives it somewhat of a triangular form when viewed laterally; it projects greatly 
