434. REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW BRITISH SPIDERS. 
found, would, I imagine, certainly furnish some peculiar specific characters. Notwith- 
standing the fine spines on the legs, it seems to me that this species, from its form, rela- 
tive length of legs, and form of maxillæ, should be placed among the species of the 
genus Veriene. 
LINYPHIA MICROPHTHALMA, n. sp. (Pl. 56. no. 25.) 
Male adult, length 1 line. 
Cephalothorax oval, moderately convex above, glossy and smooth. Caput not con- 
stricted laterally; normal furrows defining the junction of the caput with the thorax 
and thoracic segments shallow and slight; hind slope long and gradual. There are some 
prominent hairs on the clypeus, the lower margin of which is rounded and projecting ; 
the height of the clypeus is slightly greater than the length of the space oceupied by the 
four central eyes; the caput slopes in a rounding form just behind the eyes to the sum- 
mit, which is on a line even with the thorax. Colour brownish yellow. 
Eyes eight, in two transverse rows on the upper fore margin of the caput, curving from 
each other, very small, subequal; the fore centrals are the smallest, very near together, 
but not touching each other; all have slight rims of black ; the hind centrals are very 
little nearer together than each is to the lateral on its side, but further apart than each 
is from the fore central on its side; the laterals are contiguous, and placed obliquely on 
a very slight tubercle; the distance between each fore central eye and the lateral of the 
same row on its side is equal to that between it and the hind central on its side. 
Legs rather long, tolerably stout ; relative length 4, 1, 2, 3; those of the fourth pair 
are only a little longer than those of the first. Colour yellow; furnished with hairs and 
a few longish slender spines. 
Falces long, moderately strong, and slightly divergent; their profile, lobed from the 
front, is sinuous, or at first slightly prominent, and then hollowed out near the middle; 
they are very slightly inclined towards the sternum, and each falx is furnished with three 
teeth towards its extremity on the inner side; of these teeth the two nearest the extre- 
mity are considerably longer and more prominent than the other; in colour the falces 
are similar to the cephalothorax. 
Palpi slender, not very long, except the digital joint, which is large and strong; they 
are similar to the legs in colour; humeral joint curved; cubital joint short, slight, and 
curved; radial joint equal in length to the cubital, but much stouter, enlarged towards 
the margin, though with no special projections. These last two joints are furnished with 
a few bristly hairs on their outer sides. Digital joint equal in length to the humeral, 
and with a prominence near the base on the outer margin rather darker-coloured than 
the rest of the palpus, and furnished with bristly hairs on the upperside. Palpal organs 
prominent and complex; a large curved corneous piece, with a notch near its extremity, 
projects from their base on the outer side (similar to that in many others of the Liny- 
.. phie), and a short duplicated black spine in a coil at their extremity. 
. Marille moderately long, stout, slightly inclined toward the labium, which is short 
and semicircular; these parts, as well as the sternum, which is large and aite 
are rather mies in colour than the cephalothorax. 
