Xcw Species of Araneidea 1G.1 



LINYPHIA, Latr. 



LlNYPHIA INTERPOLIS, Sp. 11. (PI. XII., fig. 3.) 



Adult male, length 2 lines. 



Adult female, length 1^ to rather over 2 lines. 



Male. Gephalothorax rather narrow, oblong-oval, rounded in 

 front, lateral marginal construction at the caput slight. Profile line 

 very slightly curved, with a slight dip at the hinder margin of caput. 

 Clypeus half the height of the facial space, and its lower margin 

 prominent. Colour, yellow-brown. 



Eyes on tubercular prominences ; those of the posterior row are 

 about equally separated, and form a curved line whose convexity is 

 directed forwards. The two centrals of this row are apparently 

 largest of the eight, and are apparently one diameter and a half 

 from each other. The anterior row, slightly shortest, is very nearly 

 straight, its convexity, if any, directed backwards, and its eyes are 

 of nearly equal size, separated by a diameter's interval, or slightly 

 over, from each other, but by more than double that interval from 

 the fore-laterals. The four central eyes form a square, whose 

 anterior side is the shortest. 



Legs long, slender, 1, 4, 2, 3 yellow-brown, rather paler than 

 the cephalothorax and tinged with greenish olive. The femora in 

 one example striped longitudinally, but not conspicuously, with dark 

 brown. Spines normal. 



Falccs long, moderately strong, divergent, directed backwards ; 

 similar in colour to the cephalothorax. 



Palpi short, similar to the legs in colour, cubital and radial joints 

 short, the former shortest, both clavate ; the digital joint rather 

 large, long-oval ; palpal organs complex, with a long, slender, 

 filiform spine on their outer side, forming a very large, prominent 

 circle. 



Abdomen elongate, strongly compressed transversely past the 

 middle on the upper side and obtuse at the hinder extremity. 

 Colour black, with a conspicuous white spot on each side close to 

 the fore extremity. 



The female resembles the male in general colours and markings, 

 but the abdomen has a lateral marginal line of white lines and spots, 

 and others along the median line, but probably often either obsolete 

 or variable. The abdomen is also wanting in the constriction 

 characteristic of the male. The genital aperture is small, in- 

 conspicuous, but characteristic. 



This spider is nearly allied to Liia,plna puailla, Sund, (of Europe) 



