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digital joints, and two longer and stronger curved bristles on the outer sides; digital 
joint large, sparingly furnished with longish bristly hairs; a large lobe, ending in a 
blunt projection towards its base, on the outer side. Palpal organs prominent and 
complicated; a strong curved corneous process projects outwards at their base (this 
process has a slight notch on the inner margin near its extremity), and two curved 
spines at their extremity, rather on the inner side; one of these spines lies within the 
other, and is far the slenderer of the two; there is also a small conically pointed projec- 
tion at the extremity of these organs. 
Falces long, strong, very slightly divergent, slightly hollowed on the outer margin, 
and of the same colour as the cephalothorax; their articulation is plainly seen beneath 
the clypeus, which gives it the appearance at first sight of a vandyked junction between 
the falces and clypeus. 
Maxille strong, almost meeting over the labium, which is short and semicircular. 
Sternum heart-shaped, sparingly furnished with a few blackish hairs, and (together 
with the labium and maxillæ) of the same colour as the legs. 
Abdomen long oval, about the same length as the cephalothorax, over which it projects 
slightly ; it is of a pale drab-yellow colour, sparingly but regularly and conspicuously 
clothed with blackish-brown hairs. 
Found at the roots of heath at Bloxworth in the spring of 1862. 
LINYPHIA DECOLOR?. (Pl. 56. no. 28.) 
Linyphia decolor, Westr. Aran. Suecicæ, p. 131 ? 
Adults of both sexes of a Linyphia, considered by Dr. L. Koch to be the L. decolor of 
Westr., were captured by myself among moss and dead leaves in a wood at Bloxworth in 
April and May 1861. 
; Genus NERIENE. 
NERIENE PALLIPES, n. Sp. ; 
Male adult, length „4 of an inch. 
Cephalothorax oval; caput confluent with the thorax, the division only visible by the 
normal furrows, which are scarcely visibly marked; profile of the clypeus confluent in 
an even curving line with the upper part of the caput, whence the former is very pro- 
minent at its lower margin ; the caput has some bristly prominent hairs upon it; colour 
yellowish brown, finely punctuose when seen under a lens; margin bordered with a 
blackish line. The height of the clypeus is equal to the space occupied by the fore and 
hind central pair of eyes. 
Eyes eight, small, not differing much in size; in four pairs or two rows, and seated on 
small black spots; the upper row is the most curved, and longest, those of the hind 
central pair are rather nearer together than each is to the lateral one on its side; those 
of the fore central pair are close together and dark-coloured; each of these is equally 
distant from the lateral one of the same row on its side, and from that of the hind 
central pair opposite to itself; those of each lateral pair are contiguous, and placed 
slightly obliquely on a small tubercle. 
