According to M. Koch, the male is smaller and darker coloured than the female, but its
legs are longer than hers. The prevailing colour of its palpi is yellowish, that of the digital
joint being brown; and the palpal organs have a very dark, reddish-brown hue.
On the 8th of June, 1856, a living adult female of this species was received from
Mr. R. H. Meade, which had been taken on the trunk of an ash tree in Kent a few days
previously. This female, about the middle of June, fabricated in a box, in which it was confined,
a very slight cocoon of white silk, measuring three eighths of an inch in diameter, and
deposited in it numerous spherical eggs, of a pale-brown colour, not adherent among themselves.
Philodromus elegans. PI. V, fig. 57.
Philodromm elegant, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. iii,
p. 92.
Length of the female, &ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^th, breadth, ^th ;
breadth of the abdomen, gth ; length of a leg of the second pair, | ; length of a leg of the
third pair, Aths.
The eyes, which are nearly equal in size, are disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo-
thorax in two transverse, curved rows, forming a crescent whose convexity is directed
forwards ; and the lateral ones are seated on minute tubercles. The cephalo-thorax is short,-
broad, convex, compressed before, rounded on the sides, clothed with whitish hairs, particularly
on the lateral margins, and of a pale-yellowish colour; a broad, dark-brown band
extends along each side, a narrow, longitudinal one of the same hue, which is enlarged near
its middle, occupies the medial line, and a short, fine, dark-brown streak occurs on each side
of its anterior extremity. The falces are subconical and vertical ; the maxillæ are convex
near the base, obliquely truncated at the extremity, on the outer side, and inclined towards
the lip, which is triangular and pointed at the apex ; and the sternum is heart-shaped. These
parts are of a yellowish-brown colour, with the exception of the lip, which has a dark-brown
hue. The legs are long, slender, provided with hairs and spines, and of a yellow-brown hue,
with red-brown annuli; the second pair is the longest, then the first, and the third pair is the
shortest ; the metatarsi and tarsi have hair-like papillae on their inferior surface, and the
latter are terminated by two curved, pectinated claws. The palpi are short, and resemble
the legs in colour. The abdomen is oviform, clothed with short hairs, convex above, notched
in the middle of the anterior extremity, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax ; a
broad, yellowish-brown band extends along the middle of the upper part, the anterior region
of which comprises a dark-brown, fusiform band, having an angular point on each side, and
occupying rather more than a third of its length ; this band is bordered laterally •with yellowish-
white, and between it and the spinners there is a series of alternate, short, yellowish-white and
dark-brown curved bars, whose convexity is directed forwards, a triangular spot of the latter
hue, having its vertex in contact with the coccyx, terminating the series ; the sides are of a
dark-brown hue, and have conspicuous, yellowish-white streaks and spots disposed obliquely
upon them; the under part is of a yellowish-white colour, with minute, dark-brown spots, and
three longitudinal bands of the same hu8e, which meet at the spinners, the intermediate one
being the narrowest of the three.
Specimens of this handsome Philodromus, which, by its colours and the' design resulting
from their distribution, bears a striking resemblance to certain species of the genus Sphasus,
were taken in September, 1858, at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, by the Rev. 0 . P.
Cambridge.
Philodromus cespiticolis. PI. V, fig. 58.
Philodromus cespiticolis, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. i, p. 555.
, — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, Vol. vii,
p. 452.
— cespiticolens, Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 123.
Hgslggggl fusco-marginatus, Sund., Yet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 224.
, Length of the female, ^ths of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, ,30ths, breadth, ^ths ;
breadth of the abdomen, ^th ; length o f a leg of the second pair, fths ; length of a leg of the
fourth pair, ^ths.
The legs are long and of a reddish-brown colour, being darkest at the joints; the second
pair is the longest, then the first, and the third pair is rather longer than the fourth ; each
tarsus is terminated by two curved, pectinated claws, and below them a small scopula is
situated. The palpi resemble the legs in colour, and have a curved, pectinated claw at their
extremity. The cephalo-thorax is short, broad, compressed before, rounded on the sides,
convex and hairy ; it is of a reddish-brown colour, with narrow, yellowish-white margins, and
a broad band, of a pale, yellowish-brown hue, extending along the middle. The eyes are
arranged on the anterior part of the cephalo-thorax in the form of a crescent, those of the
lateral pairs being the largest. The falces are small, vertical} and of a pale, reddish-brown
colour. The maxillæ are slender; and the lip is triangular and1 pointed at its apex. These
parts are of a yellowish-brown hue, the lip having a dark-brown, triangular spot in the medial
line. The sternum, which is heart-shaped, is of a pale, reddish-brown colour, with margins of
a darker hue. The abdomen is clothed with short hairs, is broader in the middle than at the
extremities, and projects a little over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a yellowish-brown
colour above, with a dark, reddish-brown mark, of a triangular form, in the middle of the
anterior part, which has its vertex directed forwards ; between this triangle and the posterior
extremity of the abdomen there is a series of transverse, slightly curved lines of the same
colour; diminishing in length as they approach the anus, and; an oblong spot, of a brownish-
black hue occurs on each side, near the spinners; the colour of the sides is dark, reddish-
brown; that of the under part is yellowish-white, with three longitudinal, reddish-brown
bands, which unite near the spinners, and the branchial opercula have a yellow hue.