426 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW BRITISH SPIDERS. 
Legs long, moderately robust; relative length 1, 4, 2, 3; those of the first pair are very 
little longer than those of the fourth ; they are sparingly furnished with hairs, and a few 
short fine erect and semierect spines. Colour clear yellow-brown, with a darker longi- 
tudinal suffusion on the femoral joints of some specimens. 
Palpi moderately long ; cubital joints short and far less strong than the radials, which 
are furnished with many strong bristly black hairs, especially towards the outer sides; 
digital joints very large and hairy ; they comprise the palpal organs, which are very pro- 
minent and complex, with corneous lobes and processes; they are of a red-brown colour, 
the digital joint brownish-black, and the other joints greenish-brown. 
Falces straight, not very strong, about equal in length to the facial space, and strongly 
inclined to the maxillæ ; they are of the same colour as the cephalothorax. 
Maxille short, strong, slightly curved towards the labium, which is short, semicircular, 
and with the maxillæ of the same colour as the legs. 
Sternum of a dark-brown colour, and furnished with longish hairs. 
Abdomen oblong, depressed or constricted across the middle, very sparingly clothed 
with hair. Colour black; underside divided from the upper by a row of irregular spots 
or patehes of white, which run completely round the upper margin; the two foremost 
spots occupy either side of the median line towards the upper end, and are in some spe- 
cimens very conspieuous. The upperside has a broad patch of yellowish-brown (mottled 
with minute spots of white) towards its foremost end; this patch is succeeded by and 
united to two or three broad curvi-angular lines (the vertices of the angles directed for- 
wards) of the same colour, also mottled with white ; Or, if this be taken as the ground- 
colour of the upperside, the eurvi-angular lines must be described as black with the ex- 
tremities enlarged, so as in some specimens to form the conspicuous rows of longitudinal 
black blotehes ; in some specimens the brownish-yellow colour occupies the larger part of 
the upperside of the abdomen, and has the appearance of a large patch strongly den- 
tated on the sides; and the alternate indentations form a row of black irregular spots on 
each side. The female is similar in colour and marking to the male; her abdomen, 
however, is larger and more convex; the digital, radial, and cubital joints of the palpi in 
this sex are furnished with long black spiny hairs; and the sexual organs are large, pro- 
minent, and with a large kidney-shaped opening deeply indented on the sides. 
I have captured this species frequently under the projecting heathy and rooty edges 
of gravel-pits at Bloxworth, Dorset, where it forms a horizontal sheet of web, in which 
it waits for its prey in an inverted position. It is very closely allied to Neriene mar- 
ginata, both in size, colours, and habits, but may easily be distinguished by the much 
larger digital joint and palpal organs of the male, and by the far less regularly angulated 
pattern on the abdomen. The female also may be distinguished from the female of N. 
marginata by the greater size and prominence of the sexual organs, and the larger and 
less-circular opening into them. | 
LINYPHIA FINITIMA, n. sp. 
Male adult, length 75 of an inch. | 
Cephalothoras short, oval, slightly compressed laterally before, and not particularly 
