Agelena gracilipes. PI. X, fig. 104.
Agelena gracilipes, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., third series, vol. in,
p. 97.
Length of the male, ^th of an inch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^th, breadth, j,thH
breadth o f the abdomen, Ath; length o f a posterior leg, èths ; length of a leg of the third
pair, 4 ths.
The cephalo-thorax is convex, glossy, slightly compressed before, rounded and depressed
on the sides, which are marked with furrows converging towards a slight, narrow indentation
in the medial line; it is of a dark-brown colour, tinged with dull-yellow, especially in the
medial Une, the lateral margins being the darkest. The eyes are disposed on the anterior
part of the cephalo-thorax in two transverse, curved rows, whose convexity is directed backwards
; the intermediate eyes of both rows form a trapezoid, whose shortest side is before,
those of the anterior row, which' is rather the less curved, being the smallest of the eight.
The falces are conical and vertical ; the maxillae are short, convex near the base, rounded at
the extremity, and sBghtly incUned towards the Up ; and the sternum is heart-shaped. These
parts are of a brownish-yellow colour, the base of the falces being the brownest. The Up is
nearly quadrate, being rather broader at the base than at the apex, and has a dark-brown
hue. The legs are long, slender^ provided with hairs and sessile spines, two parallel
rows of the latter occurring on the inferior surface of the tibiæ and metatarsi of the first and
second pairs, and are of a dnU-yellow colour, with the exception of the genual joint, tibia, and
metatarsus of the first and Second pairs, which have a very dark-brown hue, the genual joint
being the palest; each tarsus is terminated by two curved, pectinated claws. The palpi have
a dull-yellow hue; the cubital and radial joints are short, and the latter projects a brown,
pointed apophysis from its extremity, on the outer side ; the digital joint is oval, convex
and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are moderately
developed, rather prominent, not very complicated in structure, with a small, curved, black
spine at their extremity, and are of a dull-yellow colour, tinged with brown. The abdomen
is oviform, thinly clothed with hairs, convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo-
thorax ; it has a brownish-black hue on the upper part, with an obscure mark of a
quadrilateral figure, and yellow-brown colour, at its anterior extremity ; and between this mark
and the spinners there is a series of obscure, curved, yeUow-brown lines, having their convexity
directed forwards ; the under part is of a yellowish-brown colour, strongly tinged with
dark-brown at its posterior extremity, and the spinners, which are short, have a pale-
yellow hue.
The Rev. O. P. Cambridge took this spider at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, in Sep-
tember, 1858.
Gemis TEGENARIA ( Walckenaer).
Eyes nearly equal in size, disposed on the anterior part o f the cephalo-thorax in two
transverse rows ; the anterior row is almost straight, and the posterior row, which is curved,
has its convexity directed backwards.
Maecittee long, straight, narrower at the base than at the extremity, the outer side of
which is rounded, and the inner side is obliquely truncated.
Lip nearly quadrilateral, and notched or somewhat hollowed at the extremity.
Legs long and rather slender ; the first pair, or the fourth, is the longest.
Tegenaria domestica. PI. XI, fig. 105.
Tegenaria domestica, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 2, pi. 16, fig. 2.
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band viii, p. 25, tab. 260, figs. 607, 608.
— — Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xix, p. 117.
Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii,
p. 332.
— petrensis, Koch, Die Arachn., Band viii, p. 27, tab. 260, fig. 609.
Aranea domestica, Latr., Gen. Crust, et Insect., tom. i, p. 96.
Agelena — Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1831, p. 125.
Length of the female, |ths of an in ch ; length of the cephalo-thorax, ^ths, breadth, £ th s ;
breadth of the abdomen, =£ths; length of an anterior leg, l^ths ; length o f a leg of the third
pair, l,th.
The legs are long, slender, provided with hairs and sessile spines, and of a red-brown
hue, marked with brownish annuli; the first pair is the longest, then the fourth, and the third
pair is the sh o r te s te a ch tarsus is terminated by three claws ; the two superior ones are
curved and deeply pectinated, and the inferior one is inflected near its base, on each side of
which there are two small teeth. The palpi resemble the legs in colour, and have a curved,
pectinated claw at their extremity. The cephalo-thorax is compressed before, convex in the
cephalic region, and rounded on the sides, which are depressed and marked with furrows
converging towards an oblong indentation in the middle; it is covered with yellowish-brown
hairs, and is o f a pale, reddish-brown colour, the anterior part being the darkest; on each
lateral margin there is an irregular, longitudinal, brownish-black band, and another of the
same hue extends along each side of the medial line. The eyes are nearly equal in s iz e ; the