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tibia? and metatarsi of the first, second, and fourth pairs, and 

 part of the metatarsi of the third pair, which are of a deep 

 blackish-brown hue. The lengths of the second and fourth 

 pairs differ but little if any thing ; the first pair is the longest, 

 and the third shortest. 



The palpi are, like the legs, furnished with hairs and spines, 

 and of a yellow-brown colour, the radial and digital joints 

 black-brown. 



The abdomen is oviform, and projects a little over the hinder 

 part of the thorax; it is of a dull yellowish-brown hue, marked 

 (especially above) with numerous irregularly shaped, yellowish 

 white, somewhat shining, cretaceous spots, whose disposition 

 leaves an indistinctly defined, longitudinal, central, yellowish- 

 brown stripe on the fore half of the upperside, and some 

 oblique lateral ones. The genital aperture is small, not very 

 prominent, but of characteristic form and dark red-brown 

 colour. 



A single example of this spider was kindly sent to me by 

 Mr. T. Workman, by whom it was found near Belfast in the 

 autumn of 1S78. It is allied to Linypliia lutcola, Blackw. ; 

 but the dark brown portions of the legs and palpi distinguish 

 it at once from that and from all other species known 

 to me. 



Linypliia relativa, sp. n. 



Length of an adult male, slightly over 1 line. 



Cephalothorax broadish oval, a very little constricted on the 

 lateral margins at the caput, of a yellowish colour slightly 

 tinged with brown, and with some lateral converging lines of 

 a deeper hue. The hinder slope is rather abrupt, deeply and 

 broadly indented ; and the profile line of the upper part of the 

 thorax and caput is level, with a very slight impression 

 behind the occiput. The ocular area is a little prominent, and, 

 as well as the upper part of the caput, which is rather rounded, 

 is thinly furnished with bristly hairs directed forwards. The 

 height of the clypeus exceeds half that of the facial space. 



The eyes are on black spots ; those of the posterior row are 

 removed from each other by rather less than an eye's dia- 

 meter ; those of each lateral pair are placed obliquely ; those 

 of the fore-central pair are the smallest of the eight, and con- 

 tiguous to each other. The four central eyes form a square, 

 whose anterior side, however, is much shorter than the rest. 



The legs are long, slender, 1, 2, 4, 3, similar in colour to 

 the cephalothorax, furnished with hairs and armed with long, 

 rather slender, but distinct black spines : three of these on each 

 of the tibise of the second, third, and fourth pairs, one on the 



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