ON" A NEW SPIDEE EEOM HODDESDON. 
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The digital joint of the palpus is large and has a small pointed 
prominent lobe at the base on the inner side, and is largely and 
roundly prominent on the outer side. The palpal organs are rather 
complex, and are furnished with three spines; one, slender, filiform, 
and of considerable length, issues from near their base on the outer 
side, and coils, freely, round and over to the inner side, recurving 
and ending in a very fine, free, hair-like point beneath its ex¬ 
tremity ; another issues from near the fore-end of the palpal organs, 
and is circularly-curved and sharp-pointed; the third issues from 
near the base of the last and is nearly straight, prominent, and 
almost equal in size from its base to its sharp point. The radial 
joint is short, about equal in length to the cubital; it is broad, 
obtuse, and, looked at from above and behind, somewhat semi-lunar 
shaped; its outer extremity is produced into a small, tapering, 
sinuous, sharp-pointed spine bent abruptly inwards just in front 
of the anterior edge of the joint. Close beneath the base of this 
spine is a very small thorn-like projection. 
The legs are moderate in length and strength, not very unequal 
in length—4, 1, 2, 3,—and furnished with hairs only. 
The abdomen is oval, clothed thinly with fine short hairs. 
The female is slightly larger than the male, but similar in general 
form and colours. The caput, however, is less prominent, being 
only very slightly rounded above, behind the ocular region. The 
genital aperture is small, semi-circular, and placed at the hinder 
extremity of a largish, nearly circular, rather prominent area. 
I am much indebted to Mr. Campbell and General Yan Hasselt 
for permitting me to describe this interesting little spider, which 
belongs to a group of several others forming the genus Cnephalo cotes 
of M. Eugene Simon. There seems to be but little foundation for 
the generic separation of this group from the genus Walckenaera of 
Blackwall. The subdivision of Walckenaera, however, is a question 
of great difficulty, owing to the characteristic portions of structure 
being those, commonly, of the male sex only. 
