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foregoing by its much, smaller size, and generally darker hue. 

 The length of male is about l-8th of an inch, or rather less. 

 The cephalo-thorax is deep black-brown, and the legs are pale 

 yellowish brown. The abdomen has its upper side almost 

 entirely occupied by a very broad, deep blackish, longitudinal 

 band dentated or sinuous on its outer margins, and with a series 

 of silvery-white, somewhat angular bars along the middle, form- 

 ing at times a somewhat broken stripe ; the sides are also occupied 

 by a white band of silvery lustre. These white parts are, in 

 some examples, of a golden hue ; and in others the sides are tinged 

 with red. 



The palpi, as well as the falces, are exceedingly similar in 

 form and structure to those of the two preceding species. 



The female is larger than the male, and, in general, rather less 

 dark coloured and not so distinctly marked. 



An abundant spider, during the greater part of the year, among 

 grass in fields, and in many other situations, as well as on plants 

 and bushes, particularly furze bushes when in bloom. 



GENUS TAPINOPA, Westr. LINYPHIA, Bh, in part. 



This genus has been formed by Westring for a single remark^ 

 able spider, included by Wider and Blackwall in the genus 

 Linyphia. The cephalo-thorax rises considerably before, but this 

 is caused by a sort of thrusting up by the largo and powerful 

 falces, not by the really greater height of the caput. The 

 occiput however is a little gibbous. 



The eyes form a broadish tran jverse-oval figure close to the 

 insertion of the falces. Those of the foit'- central pair being the 

 largest, and not nearly contiguous to each other. 



The legs are rather long, not very strong, and are furnished 

 with hairs and a few erect bristles only. Their relative length 

 is 1.4.2.3. Those of the first pair being distinctly the longest. 



The Maxilla are long, strong, straight, of a somewhat broad- 

 oblong form, rather rounded at their extremities ; and the Labium 

 ia semicircular. 



