20G Rev. O. P. Cambridge on some 



genua, and one on the inner side of the fore extremity of the 

 femora of the first pair only, the tibia? of this pair haling four ; 

 there is a single spine also on each of the metatarsi. 



The palpi are rather short, and similar to the legs in colour. 

 The radial and cubital joints are of equal length : the former 

 is much the stronger, and is a little produced at its fore extre- 

 mity on the upperside ; it is furnished with black bristles and 

 hairs ; four of the strongest of the former are curved and taper- 

 ing, and form nearly a straight line from the base to the extre- 

 mity of the joint, the line being also continued backwards by 

 another similar bristle at the middle of the fore extremity of 

 the cubital joint ; these bristles are all about the same length 

 and strength. The digital joints are of good size, and have 

 their convex sides directed inwards to each other ; each has a 

 large lobe on the outer side, and two small subcorneal pro- 

 minences at its posterior extremity. The palpal organs are 

 prominent and complex, with a strong, subangularly curved 

 process at their base on the outer side ; the posterior extre- 

 mity of this process is the largest and most prominent ; and 

 there are some bristly hairs issuing from near the other (or an- 

 terior) extremity. 



The falces are moderately strong, rather long, divergent, a 

 little bent outwards near their fore extremity, and directed 

 backwards, towards the sternum ; their colour is a little 

 browner than that of the ccphalothorax. 



The colour of the maxillm is dull yellowish, and the labium 

 and sternum are strongly suffused with brown. 



The abdomen is short oviform, considerably convex above, 

 and projects a little over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is 

 of a dull brown hue, broken up into blotches, or reticulated 

 by pale irregular lines on the upper part and sides, the under- 

 side being dark brown. 



An example of this spider was found among moss in Bcrc- 

 wood, adjoining the Bloxworth woods, on the 2nd of May, 

 1879. It is allied to Linyphia alacris, BL, but may be 

 distinguished easily, by the different pattern of the cephalo- 

 thorax and abdomen, and by the absence of the very long, 

 strong, single bristle which projects from the fore side of each 

 of the cubital and radial joints of the palpus of that species — 

 the bristles on those joints of the present spider being (as 

 above described) more numerous, and, as nearly as possible, 

 equal in length and strength. 



Linyphia turbatrix, sp. n. 



Adult male, length 1 line, or a little over. 



The whole of this spider is of a yellow-brown colour, the 



