10 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on British Sjn'ders. 



The caput is broadish and bluff before, and slightly con- 

 stricted on the lateral margins. Looked at in profile the occi- 

 pital region is very slightly but perceptibly and roundly 

 raised, just sufficiently so to interrupt the even curve of the 

 general profile-line ; at the posterior part of the occiput is a 

 small blackish suffusion, into which a suffused line of a similar 

 colour runs from each hind lateral eye. 



The height of the clypeus is ratlier less than half that of the 

 facial space. 



The e?/es are of moderate size, seated on black spots, and 

 form a largish area on the anterior upper slope of the caput ; 

 the posterior row is the longest and very strongly curved, the 

 anterior row being very nearly straight. The intervals between 

 the eyes of the posterior row are similar, being each equal to 

 about an eye's diameter. Those of each lateral pair are seated 

 obliquely on a slight tubercle. 



The legs are strongish but not very long, nor greatly un- 

 equal in length, furnished with hairs and a few fine erect 

 bristles ; 4, 1, 2, 3. 



The falces are moderate in length, strong, straight, and ver- 

 tical ; armed with a few very minute teeth on each side of the 

 groove in which the fang lies when at rest. 



The maxillce, lahiiwi, and sternuut do not present any note- 

 worthy characters. 



The abdomen is oval, and projects strongly over the base of 

 the cephalothorax ; it is of a dull brownish-yellow colour, the 

 sides and underpart more or less suftused with blackish brown ; 

 and it is thinly clothed with short fine hairs. 



The genital aperture is inconspicuous and very simple in 

 form, consisting of a small oblong aperture with an oblique 

 narrow oblong-oval dark brown marking on each side of it, 

 probably denoting the position, beneath, of the spermathecte. 



An example of this spider was found among moss in 

 October 1879, at Bloxworth ; and another has been since re- 

 ceived from Northumberland. It does not appear to me to 

 belong to any species of which the male has yet been described ; 

 and its colours and form rendering it a characteristic species, I 

 am induced to describe it as new. 



If it were not that the eyes are so much larger, I should 

 have considered that it might be the female of W. penultima, 

 to which in colours it bears a strong resemblance. 



Genus LiNYPHiA, Latr. 



Linyphia pallida^ Cambr. 



Liiii/phia palltdn, Camhr. Sjnders of Dorset, p. 216; and Traus. Liuii. 

 Soc. xxvii. p. 435, p. Ivi. no. 26. 



In June 1880, and again in June and July 1881, I have 



