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Therididae. 

 Section THERIDIONINI. 



Phyllonethis le-pidum^ Wlk. 



This interesting little species occurred in some abundance 

 under stones in a marshy spot on the fells near the Tilber- 

 tliwaite waterfalls in the neighbourhood of Coniston Water in 

 July 1891. 



It has hitherto only been taken in Dorset, so far as I am 

 aware. 



Section ERIGONINI. 



Group L I N I P H I N I. 



Genus Leptyphantes. 



Leptyphantes pinicola, Sim. 



This little spider, added to the British list in Sept. 1890, 

 was in evidence in an immature state upon Helvellyn in 

 July 1891. 



LejjtyiDhantes ericceus, Blk. (PI. XX. fig. 4, a, b, c.) 



Length of male | line. 



Both sexes. — CephalotJiorax almost as broad as long, 

 narrowed in front ; very pale dull yellow, with dusky mar- 

 ginal line. Ocular area prominent ; eyes conspicuous, 

 encircled with black. Dorsal profile-outline concave in 

 centre, very convex behind, and abruptly sinking towards the 

 base. 



Clypeus scarcely as high as the ocuUir area, projecting a 

 little forwards. 



Falces two and a half times the height of the clypeus, long, 

 vertical, straight, not attenuate or divergent towards apex; 

 bearing three stiff hairs on inner side in front ; outer side 

 striate. 



Sternum broader than long ; brown, shining, convex, set 

 with a few isolated black hairs; terminating between the 

 posterior coxaj in a very broad squarely truncate piece. 



Legs pale yellow, clothed with short liairs. Femora 

 exhibiting beneath a double series of long fine hairs, the pair 

 nearest the apex much longer ; femora i. with a fine spine 

 situated on the inner side a little towards the apex ; femora 

 ii., iii., iv. without spines. 



