432 REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW BRITISH SPIDERS. 
The cephalothorax (which has a narrow blackish margin), legs, falces, and maxillæ 
are of a pale yellow colour, the sternum slightly suffused with blackish, and the abdomen, 
which projects a little over the base of the cephalothorax, is of a pale whitish brown 
colour above, reticulated with a darker hue, forming a sort of central longitudinal pale 
narrow band, pointed at its hinder part, reaching nearly to the spinners, and sending 
forth lateral pale lines; the underside is suffused with black, and the spiracular plates 
are pale yellow. ; 
The cephalothorax is similar in form to that of L. ericæa and L. circumspecta ; the 
eyes are on large and almost confluent black spots. They are rather large in comparison 
with the size of the spider; those of the hind central pair are further from each other 
than each is from the end one of the hind row on its side; those of each lateral pair are 
contiguous, and placed slightly obliquely on a small tubercle; those of the fore central 
pair are close together, and smaller and darker than the rest; each of these is within 
half of its diameter of the lateral of the same row on its side, and is distant about once 
and a half its diameter, or less, from the hind central eye opposite to it. 
Legs long and slender; relative length 1, 2, 4, 3, and furnished with ordinary hairs 
and longish slender spines. 
Palpi short; the radial joint is much stronger than the cubital, being produced or 
spread out a little in front at its extremity; it has a few longish dark bristly hairs, of 
which one on its upperside forward is most conspicuous. Digital joint moderate in size, 
with a small lobe on its outer side; palpal organs rather complex, with a curved cor- 
neous process near their base on the outer side, having a short fine spiny black point, 
almost touching the outer extremity of the radial joint. "These organs are tinged in 
parts with red brown. 
Maxille short, strong, curved, and almost meeting over the labium, which is short and 
round at the apex. 
The female is larger and darker than the male; her abdomen projects greatly over the 
cephalothorax ; and the relative length of the legs appears to differ in that sex, the fourth 
pair being equal to, if not slightly longer than, the first, and certainly longer than the 
second; her external sexual organs are prominent, and project backwards, but have no 
very perceptible epigyne (or ovipositor) connected with them, in this respect differing 
from ZL. ericea (Bl), and more resembling L. circumspecta, from which, however, the 
male is easily recognized by the absence of any black filiform spine coiled round the 
extremity of the palpal organs. 
An adult male and females of this spider were captured by myself among herbage in a 
wood at Bloxworth, Dorset, in April 1867. 
LINYPHIA OBLITA, n. sp. 
Male adult, length 1 line (5 of an inch). 
This obscure species, of which it is very difficult to give any easily recognizable specific 
difference from Neriene pallipes (Camb.), described p. 437, post, is yet, I think, certainly 
distinct from it. It is larger and darker in colour, and its cephalothorax has a kind of —— 
angular dark patch at the junction of the caput and thorax ; its falces are rather longer, d 
