BY A. T. UflQUHART. 107 



is a yellow trauslucent, very slender stylus, apex ladle-shape; 

 springs from base of sub-scape. 

 Single example. 



Linyphia sub-lutece, sp. nov. 



i^em.— Ceph. th., long, 2-1 ; wide, 1-6. Abd., long, 3-2; 

 wide, 3. Legs, 1, 4, 2, 3 = 128, 8-6, 8, 6 mm. 



Cephalothorax, light ochreous-brown ; medial streak wide, 

 without clearly defined limits, chocolate-brown; lateral margins 

 speckled with similar tone ; broad-ovate, slightly compressed 

 at cajDut; pars cephalica convex, roundly truncated; eye 

 prominence moderate ; height of clypeus rather exceeds one- 

 haK depth of facial space ; pars thoracica prominently 

 convex ; fovea deep elongate-oval, longitudinal ; radial striae 

 fairly well marked ; caput grooves well defined; profile line 

 rises with a sensible curve from margin of eye area to limit 

 of caput, from thence represents an abrupt curve to stalk. 



Eyes on black rings, enclose an oval space ; centrals of 

 posterior row removed rather further from laterals than they 

 are from each other, an interval fully equal to an eye's 

 breadth ; median-pair of anterior row dark, scarcely as large 

 as hind pair, form with them a sub-quadrilateral figure, 

 rather longer than broad; divided from side eyes by a space 

 equalling their radius; laterals visibly the smallest of eight, 

 opalescent ; posited on a moderate sized, common dark 

 tubercle, sub-touching. 



Falces, yellowish, amber colour ; slender, conical ; inclined 

 forwards, base in line with plane of clypeus ; length equal to 

 depth of facial space. 



Maxillie ochreous-brown; long, linear-spathulate ; some- 

 what bent over lip. 



Labium, lightly suffused with olive-green, short, about 

 twice as wide as long, rounded, everted. 



Sturnum, pale brownish-olive, metallic reflections ; heart- 

 shape ; slight eminences opposite coxae. 



Legs, light ochreous-brown ; central and distal annulations 

 of a deeper tone on tibae and metatarsi ; hairs dusky, toler- 

 ably thick ; bristle-like spines on the pars petellaris and 

 tibialis. 



Palpi, colour and armature of legs ; cubital joint shorter 

 than radial ; digital rather longer than humeral. 



Abdomen oviform, projects well over base of cephalotho- 

 rax; hairs yellowish, short, fairly thick; ground colour light 

 brown, approximating to olive-green ; central-third occupied 

 by an elongate, diamond-shaped figure, stained with dark 

 chocolate, margins pale brownish-chrome. 



