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the eight, and near together; those of the hind central pair are a little wider apart than 
each is from the lateral of the same row on its side, the distance between them being 
equal to that between each and the one opposite to it of the front central pair; the hind 
row is curved, the front row straight; the eyes of each lateral pair are seated obliquely 
on a slight tubercle. 
Legs long, slender, furnished with hairs and a few fine spines; colour dark yellow- 
brown; relative length 4, 1, 2, 3. 
Palpi not very long ; radial and cubital joints of equal length; the former is rather 
gibbous or nodiform, it is furnished with a few bristly hairs above, and is slightly pro- - 
duced towards its inner side; the digital joint has a prominent lobe on its outer side for- 
ward; the palpal organs are prominent and complex, consisting of corneous processes, 
of which one, of a curved form, is rather prominent at their base on the outer side, and a 
slender black spine coils round their extremity. 
Falces moderately long and strong, slightly inclined to the maxillæ, and a little hol- 
lowed on the outer margins; they are similar in colour to the cephalothorax, and are 
furnished with bristly hairs. 
Maxille moderately long, broad at the base, obliquely rounding to the inner extremi- 
ties; they are slightly inclined to the Zabium, which is short, broad, and somewhat flatly 
rounded at the apex. These parts are similar in colour to the falces, the labium, how- 
ever, being rather darker. i 
Sternum heart-shaped, furnished with hairs, and of a blackish hue. 
Abdomen oviform, black, and furnished with short hairs; when in spirit of wine, a few 
pale lines and. spots, arranged somewhat symmetrically, are visible; spinners and spira- 
cular plates pale greenish black. 
The female is rather larger than the male, and resembles it in colour and general cha- 
racters; but her legs are shorter. Specimens of this species were captured by myself 
among dwarf plants and herbage in the sand hills, near Southport, in Lancashire, in 1859, 
but were overlooked, until more recently I found it abundantly at Bloxworth, spinning 
an irregular web among stems of grass and rubbish. It is closely allied in the structure 
of its palpi to L. circumspecta (Blackw.), but it is easily distinguished by being rather 
larger, and never having any trace of the characteristic pattern on the abdomen, which 
is always, as far as I have observed, visible in that species. 
It may easily be distinguished from Veriene (Erigone) rurestris (Westr.) (the Neriene 
gracilis of Blackwall), to which it bears some resemblance, by the spines on the legs as 
well as by its rather larger size, the greater length but rather less strength of the falces, 
and its generally duller hue. Possibly it may be identical with Linyphia parvula (Westr.), 
to which it is, at all events, very nearly allied, but from which I am inclined to believe 
it is distinct. 
LINYPHIA INCONSPICUA, n. sp. 
Male adult, length 41; of an inch. 
- This spider is very nearly allied to Z. ericæa (Bl.), but is, I think, distinct from that 
species 
