REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 537 
Adults of both sexes were contained in Mr. James Hardy's collection, made near 
Wooler, Northumberland, in 1871. 
LINYPHIA CONTRITA, sp. n. (Pl. XLVI. fig. 7.) 
Male adult, length 1 line. 
The fore part of this spider was of a pale yellow, and the abdomen of a dusky whitish 
hue; but as the example had evidently not long effected its final moult, these colours 
can hardly be relied upon. 
The cephalothoraz is short, but of ordinary general form. The height of the clypeus is 
equal to half that of the facial space. 
The eyes are in the usual position, but (perhaps owing to its recent moult) were all of 
a very pale diaphanous whitish colour, and, having no blaek margins, were not easy to 
be distinguished; those of the hinder row are equidistant from each other; those of the 
lateral pairs are on a strongish tubercle, contiguous to each other and oblique. 
The legs are longish and slender, furnished with hairs and a few fine blackish spines. 
The palpi are short, the cubital and radial joints equal in length, and present nothing 
remarkable in form or other characters. The digital joint is not very large, but 
has a small prominence near its base on the outer side; the palpal organs are well 
developed, and moderately complex, with a curved and rather slender, somewhat crescent- 
shaped process on their outer side, near the base. 
Falces long, slender, and divergent. 
Maxille strongly inclined over the /abiwn, which is small and apparently somewhat of 
a semicircular form. 
An adult male, found by Mr. James Hardy on the Cheviot Hills, was sent to me in 
October 1871; it is a rather obscure species, and appears to be allied to L. circumspecta, 
Bl. and others; but the structure of the palpal organs, as well as other differences, dis- 
tinguish it from all I have yet seen. 
LINYPHIA LINGUATA, sp. n. (Pl. XLVI. fig. 8.) 
Female adult, length very nearly 2 lines. 
In general form and structure this spider is of the ordinary type. The whole of the 
fore part, including the legs and palpi, is of an orange-yellow colour, the abdomen being 
pale, dull, luteous yellow or straw-colour, with a rather indistinct darker longitudinal 
stripe along the centre of the fore half of the upperside, followed towards the spinners 
by several transverse angular stripes of a similar nature; the sides are slightly suffused 
with dusky ; and the underside has a broad longitudinal dusky band reaching from near 
the spinners to the genital aperture; with this last there is connected a long and broad, 
somewhat tongue-shaped epigyne, by the form and structure of which it may be dis- 
tinguished from several nearly allied species. 
The abdomen is very thinly clothed with fine hairs, those on the fore part being of a 
bristly nature. 
The eyes are on black spots, and in the ordinary position; the centrals of the hinder 
