179 

 LINYPHIA FRENATA. 



Likyphta fkenata, Wider., Blaclcw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel. 

 p. 228, pi. xvi., fig. 151. 



Tlie male measures l-8th of an inch in length. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a pale, dull, yellowish hue, with a 

 longitudinal black band on each side, near the lateral margin. 

 The caput is rather elevated and prominent, the summit being 

 rounded and clothed with numerous curved, bristly, black hairs, 

 directed forwards. The legs are long, slender, hairy, armed 

 with erect spines, and of a yellowish-brown colour, with several 

 dull, dark-coloured annuli. The abdomen is exceedingly convex 

 above and projects greatly over the cephalo-thorax ; its colour is 

 a pale, reddish-brown, pretty thickly mottled above with white 

 cretaceous looking spots, and along the middle of the hinder 

 half is a series of several angular black lines, the first two or 

 three broken and widely divided at the vertices, being in fact 

 only elongated spots. The sides are marked with some irregular 

 black streaks. 



The palpi of the male are like the legs in colour ; the radial 

 joint is stronger than the cubital, but both are short, and have 

 some prominent bristles in front ; the digital joint is of a some* 

 what irregular form, and the palpal organs are prominent, com- 

 plex, and turned outwards. The fakes are long, and divergent 

 at their extremity. 



The female is larger than the male, resembling it in colours 



and markings, but wanting the prominent development of the 



fore part of the caput, and her legs are shorter. 



A rare spider among herbage and heather on the sides of 



earthy ridges and banks in autumn at Bloxworth. Mr. Dale has 



met with it at Glanvillos Wootton; and it has also been found in 



Yorkshire. 



