204 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on some 



era brevipes, Westr., resembling it in the short broad cephalo- 

 thorax, short legs, and round abdomen. It is, however, a smaller 

 spider, and of a paler hue ; and although the eyes are in a 

 very similar general position, they are larger and more closely 

 grouped together. The interval, also, between those of the 

 central pair of the hinder row is greater, being double that 

 which separates each of them from the lateral eye on its side ; 

 whereas in W. brevipes the eyes of the hinder row are sepa- 

 rated by equal intervals. In the present spider the position of 

 the eyes approaches very nearly to that of Phohomma gibbum, 

 Westr. The height of the clypeus, also, in W. minutissima 

 is greater than in W. brevipes, being very nearly equal 

 to two thirds of the height of the ocular area, while in W. 

 brevipes it is only a little more than one half of the height of 

 that area. In the male (when discovered) the height of the 

 clypeus will probably be found to exceed two thirds that of 

 the ocular area. The legs are slender, short, and furnished 

 with hairs, one or two being erect. 



From Wakhenaera brews, Wid., the present spider may 

 be distinguished, not only by the same characters in respect 

 of the eyes which distinguish it from W. brevipes, but by its 

 much smaller size, paler colour, and the still greater propor- 

 tional height of the clypeus, which in W. brevis is no more 

 than half that of the ocular area. 



Two adult females were received from Colonel Pickard, 

 11. A., by whom they were found at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, 

 about the middle of June 1879. 



Genus Linyphia, Latr. 

 Linyphia subnigripes, sp. n. 



Length of an adult female, If line. 



The cephalothorax is of ordinary form ; its colour is yellow- 

 brown, marked with a dusky brown marginal line and indis- 

 tinct converging bars, following the course of the normal 

 indentations. There is also a central longitudinal line of the 

 same colour. 



The eyes are seated on black spots, those of the posterior 

 row forming a transverse straight line, the interval between 

 those of the hind-central pair being greater than that between 

 each and the hind-lateral eye on its side ; the fore-central 

 pair are placed on a prominence, which brings them rather 

 considerably in advance of the rest. 



The legs are long, slender, and tapering, furnished with 

 hairs, and distinct, prominent, but not very strong spines ; 

 they are similar in colour to the cephalothorax, excepting the 



