m 



The fakes are long, powerful, perpendicular, and divergent at 

 their extremities, with, some long strong teeth in two rows on their 

 inner surface. The fang is long and a little bent at its point. 



Three species are described as British, one only having as 

 yet been found in Dorsetshire. 



TAPINOPA LONGIDENS. 



Linyphia lonoidens, Wider., Zool. Misc. Mus. Senck, Bd. i. p. 

 270. Taf. 18. fig. 5. 

 ,, ,, Blachw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel. p. 227, 



pi. xvi. fig 150. 



The length of the male is l-7th of inch. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a reddish yellow-brown colour, with 

 a brownish-black band along each side, and the upper 

 part of the caput is ornamented with numerous long black 

 bristles, directed forwards. The legs are of a paler, clearer 

 yellowish hue, hairy, and with a few erect bristles, but no spines. 

 The abdomen is of short-oval form, and considerably convex above; 

 it is of a dull brownish-yellow colour, more or less thickly mottled 

 with small white cretaceous looking spots, and marked on the 

 upper side with two longitudinal rows of large blackish spots 

 or blotches, the rows converging towards the spinners ; and on 

 each side is a longitudinal, bent, blackish-brown bar, which joins 

 in, at the hinder extremity, with one of the posterior blotches. 



The palpi of the male have the radial and cubital joints both 

 short, and the latter has a long prominent bristle at its fore 

 extremity. The digital joint is large and is considerably produced 

 at its base, the production being curved, with its extremity 

 directed outwards, and notched or bifid. 



The palpal organs are prominent and complex. 



The female is larger than the male, but resembles it in colours 

 and markings ; and connected with the genital aperture there is 

 a prominent, conspicuous, curved process of very large size, with 

 its extremity somewhat coiled or re-curved. 



