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not be confoundod with another spider, inhabiting also dark 

 buildings and collars — Pholcus phalangioides. Euossl. (supra p. 

 77). The far longer and slenderer legs, and the cybndrical 

 abdomen of the latter spider, will distinguish it at a glanco 

 from the present species. 



GENUS PHYLLONETHIS, Thor. THERIDION, Blacho. 

 in part. 



This genus, included by Mr. Blackwall in Theridion, is 

 separated from it by the more slendor legs, a difference in the 

 relative position of tho eyes of tho posterior row, and in the 

 form of tho maxillco, which are broader towards their extremities. 

 In the malos there is also a groator, though in different 

 individuals not always an equal dovolopment of the falcos, which 

 are widely divergent, and arniod with a strong tooth towards 

 their base on tho inner side. Two British species only are at 

 present known, both of them being found in Dorsetskh-e. 



rilYLLONETHIS LINEATA. 



Araneus lineatus, Clerch, Sv. Spindl. p. 60, pi. 3, Tab. 10. 



Theridion lineatum, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irol., p. 

 176, pi. xiii, fig. 111. 



Tho length of the male is l-7th, and that of the female l-5th, 

 of an inch. 



This is ono of our commonest, as well as protticst, spiders, 

 occurring on various plants, bushes, and low trees; its genoral 

 colouring is palo yellow, or whitish. Tho cophalo-thorax is of a 

 straw-yellow colour, with a dusky, longitudinal, central, and 

 black marginal lines ; two longitudinal converging rows of black 

 spots, sometimes dilated into irregular bands, occupy the upper 

 sido of tho abdomen, which is thickly covered with cretaceous 

 yellowish, or whitish spots ; a row of alternate black and white 

 spots oncirclos the hinder extremity, near tho base of the 

 spinners, in tho form of a horse-shoo', "whoso open sido is in 

 front ; and a longitudinal blackish band runs along tho middle 



