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joint of which, in Linyphia leprosa, is a long, tapering, slightly 

 sinuous, prominent bristle, has only a short, very slender, and 

 inconspicuous one. The radial joint is rather more produced on 

 the upper side. The digital joint is smaller, and has no pointed 

 prominence at its base, where thore is a very marked and charac- 

 teristic one in Linyphia leprosa. The palpal organs are of quite 

 a different structure, far less prominent, less complex, and with 

 loss strong processes. 



The eyes are rather large, seated on black spots, and more 

 closely grouped together than in L. hprosa. The posterior row is 

 straight, and the interval between the eyes of the hind-central 

 pair is greater than that between each and the lateral eye next 

 to it. 



With respect to the markings on the abdomen, these are 

 exceedingly similar in the two species ; there are, however, in 

 the present spider scarcoly any white spots on tho dull yellowish- 

 brown ground colour ; and the dark-brown, transverse, angular 

 bars are usually more distinct and perfect, and uniform in size 

 throughout, i.e., their extremities do not terminate (as frequently 

 do those of Linyphia leprosa) in a diffused patch or blotch. The 

 process connected with the genital aperture of the female is 

 smaller and much less prominent. 



Examples of both sexes of this spider have been in my 

 possession for several years past ; some of them were found in 

 woods and shrubberies at Bloxworth ; others were received from 

 the North of England and from Scotland, and were seon at once 

 to be, though remarkably similar in many respects to Linyphia 

 leprosa, yet different in several points. Theso examples were 

 however, shortly afterwards mislaid, and it is only very lately 

 that they have come to light, and are now for the first time 

 recorded as British. 



It is probable that Linyphia telrina is a tolerably abundant 

 spider in this neighbourhood. At the beginning of February in 

 the present year I found three examplos of it, dead, inside an 

 empty bottle, which had been thrown into the shrubbery ; these 



