border, and has a yellowish-brown hue in the middle. The abdomen is oviform, densely
covered with hairs, convex above, projecting a little over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is.
of a reddish-brown colour on the upper part, with two angular, black lines, whose vertices are
directed forwards, situated near the middle, one immediately before the other ; the sides and
posterior extremity are thickly spotted with black; the under part has a yellowish-brown hue,
with some scattered, black spots, and a black band extending from the sexual organs, along
the middle, about halfway towards the spinners, where it terminates at a short, transverse
fold ; the superior spinners are longer than the rest ; and the branchial opercula are of a pale-
yellow hue.
The male, though it bears a strong general resemblance to the female, presents several
marked points of difference ; it is rather smaller, darker coloured, and the absolute length of
its legs is greater, an anterior one measuring thirteen twenty-fourths of an inch. The
irregular black band, extending along each side of the cephalo-thorax, comprises three
yellowish-brown spots, diverging from its upper towards its lower margin. The femora have
a broad, black annulus at their extremity, the annuli of the first and second pairs of legs
being the most distinctly marked. The humeral joint of the palpi has a tuft of long, coarse,
black bristles near its base, on the under side ; and the radial joint, which is longer than the
cubital, has some coarse, black bristles on the upper side, and a brownish-black apophysis,
somewhat crescent-shaped, with one limb very obtuse and the other acute, placed transversely
on the outer side of its extremity ; the digital joint is oval, of a dark-brown hue, convex and
hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are highly developed,
not very complicated in structure, with a small, curved spine at the extremity, on the outer
side, and are of a dark-brown cotour.
This active spider is of frequent occurrence in the woods of North Wales, running with
great rapidity among the foliage of the trees, and sometimes concealing itself under the
lichens which grow upon their trunks and branches. In June the female deposits about 157
spherical eggs of a pale, yellowish-white colour, not agglutinated together, in a lenticular
cocoon of white silk of a very fine texture, measuring seven sixteenths of an inch in diameter ;
it is inclosed in a sac of the same material, attached to the inferior surface of a leaf, the sides
of which are curved downwards, and are held in that position by silken lines connecting them
with the sac. The female generally places herself on or near the cocoon, but speedily
abandons it on being disturbed.
A female of this species was received from Mr. J. Hardy, in 1858, who took it in
Berwickshire.
Clubiona domestica. PI. VIII, fig. 84.
Clubiona domestica, Wider, Museum Senckenb., Band i, p. 214, taf. 14, fig. 9.
Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xi,
p. 115.
Philoica notata, Koch, Die Arachn., Band viii, p. 55, tab. 268, figs. 631, 632.
The eyes are seated on black spots, and disposed on the anterior part of the cephalo-
thorax in two transverse rows ; the posterior row is somewhat curved, having its convexity
directed backwards, and the anterior row, which is the shorter, and situated a little above
the frontal margin, is almost straight; the lateral eyes of the posterior row are the largest,
and the two intermediate ones of the same row are the smallest of the eight. The cephalo-
thorax is convex, thinly clothed with short-hairs, slightly compressed before, rounded on the
sides, and has a narrow indentation in-the medial line; it is of a brownish-yellow colour, with
a somewhat irregular, brownish-black band extending along each side, and narrow, lateral
margins of thè same hue. The falces are powerful, conical, rather prominent, armed with
minute teeth on the. inner surface, and have- a pale, reddish-brown tint. The maxillae are
straight; convex, near the base,-and rounded at the extremity ; the lip is short and somewhat
quadrate; and the sternum is oval, with small prominences on the sides, opposite; to the legs.
These parts are of a pale, brownish-yellow colour. The legs are moderately long, provided
with hairs,.,and with two parallel rows of sessile spines on the^inferior surface of’t'he tibiæ and
metatarsi of th e ‘first and *sedôhd pairs, and are of a pale, brownish-yellow hue, with a few
obscure, dark annuli; the fourth pair is the longest, then the first, and the third pair is the
shortest! each 'tarsus; is germinated by-two curved, pectinated .claws. The'jjalpi resemble
the legs in colour, and the digital joint, which is the darkest, has a .small,-curved, pectinated
claw at its extremity. The abdomen is hairy, of an oblong-pviform figure, convex above,
projecting a little over the base of the cephalo-thorax ; the upper part is of a dull, yellowish-'
brown colour, with a longitudinal, black band in thè middle of the anterior part, which
gradually increases in breadth to its posterior extremity, and between this band and the
spinners there is a series of angular lines whose vertices are directed forwards the brownish-
black sides are mottled with yellowish-brown, and the under part is: of a dull, yellowish-brown
colour.
According to M. Koch, the male is smaller and slenderer than the female, but its legs
are longer in proportion to its size.' The radial joint of its palpi is not so strong as the
cubital, and is curved • downwards ; the digital joint is of an oblong-oval form, convex and
hairy externally, concave within,, comprising the palpal Organs, which are moderately
developed and uneven.
The length of the adult female Philoica notata (Clubiona domestica) is stated by M. Koch
to be from four to four and a half lines. An immature female, captured in Gloucestershire in
1852, was received- from Mr. R. H. Meade, in the autumn of the same year ; and in the
autumn of 1858, the Rev. O. P. Cambridge took a young female-in Dorsetshire.
M. Walckenaer is certainly mistaken in supposing this species to be identical with
Clubiona corticalis (‘Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt:,’ t."iv, p. 439), from which it differs in
organization and colour. The males are very dissimilar, not only differing remarkably in the
relative length of their legs, but also in the structure of the palpi and palpal organs. The
genus Philoica of M. Koch, like some of the other genera which he has proposed for adoption,
comprises spiders belonging to different families.
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