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curved; this process by its size and shape distinguishes the males of the two species at a 

 glance. 



The female may be distinguished by the abdomen in the present species (when looked 

 at in profile) having a higher elevation about the middle, the general curve of that of 

 L. pcltata being here of a somewhat humped nature ; the form of the genital aperture also 

 differs a little : in L. peltata it is of a simple, transverse, oval form ; in the present its form is 

 somewhat bluntly sub-triangular. 



Hub. Murree, June llth to July 14th, and Murree to Sind Valley, July 14th to August 

 5th, 1873. 



48. LINYPHIA ALBIPUNCTATA, sp. n. 



Adult female : length rather over 2 lines. 



This spider is nearly allied to Linyphia leprosa, Ohl., and L. minuta, Bl., to which it bears 

 considerable resemblance both in size, form, and colours. The whole of the forepart is yellow- 

 brown, the sternum and falces being the darkest : the upper part of the caput also, with 

 the normal indentations, is rather darker than the rest of the cephalothorax ; the legs are 

 distinctly annulated with dark brown, and furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines ; the 

 palpi have a similar armature, but are not so distinctly annulated. 



The eyes are in the ordinary position and seated on tubercular black spots, but the ocular 

 area is more prominent than usual, and has the appearance of a longisl-, oblong, tubercular 

 platform ; those of the posterior row appear to be equally divided from each other, the inter- 

 val being less than a diameter ; the fore-centrals are the smallest of the eight, and are sepa- 

 rated by about half a diameter, each being divided from the fore-lateral eye on its side by rather 

 less than the diameter of the latter ; those of each lateral pair are placed rather obliquely, 

 but not quite contiguously. The height of the clypeus, which is very projecting, equals half 

 that of the facial space ; the four central eyes form a rectangle whose longitudinal is greater 

 than its widest transverse diameter, and its posterior side longer than its anterior one. 



The falces are moderately long and strong, very slightly divergent, nearly perpendicular ; 

 their profile is curved, and each has three tolerably strong, sharp teeth at the extremity on 

 the inner side. 



The sternum has its surface slightly tuberculose. 



The abdomen is very convex above, and projects well over the base of the cephalothorax ; 

 it is of a rather dark yellow-brown colour, marked with deeper brown, and thickly and minutely 

 specked with white on the upper part and sides ; the only traceable pattern is a longitu- 

 dinal dark-brown line along the middle of the fore part of the upper side, followed to the 

 spinners by a series of transverse angular lines, formed by the more regular disposition 

 of some of the white spots ; probably a series of specimens would show transverse angular 

 brown lines, with perhaps an enlargement like a spot or blotch at each of their extremities ; 

 on the sides also there is a trace of a similar white horizontal curved line meeting the one 

 on the opposite side a little above the spinners ; and above it is a horizontal brown patch. These 

 markings are all very similar to those of Linyphia leprosa, though less distinct. The gen- 

 ital aperture in the two species, and the process connected with it, are, however, totally dis- 

 similar ; in the present spider, instead of being exceedingly prominent, and rather complex, 

 it is only slightly prominent and very simple in its structure. 



Hab Murree, June llth to July 14th, 1873. 



