191 



June ; but appears to be frequent in many other localities, both 

 in England and Scotland. 



LINYPHIA CIRCUMCINCTA. 

 Linyphia ciroumcinota, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 423. 



Length of the adult female, 2 lines. 



The cephalo-thorax is pale dull yellowish, with a longitudinal 

 central black line, bifid at its fore extremity, and some con- 

 vergent dusky lines on the sides. The eyes are on black, slightly 

 tuberculato spots. The legs are of a clearer yellow than the 

 cophalo-thorax, and the spines are rather short and not very 

 strong. Their relative length is 1.4.2.3. The abdomen is very 

 convex above, especially at the fore part, which projects con- 

 siderably over the base of the cephalo-thorax. The upper side 

 is white, with a central, longitudinal, brown band, tapering to a 

 mere line on the hinder part. On each side of this band and parallel 

 to it, is a row of brown spots, varying in size and distinctness in 

 different examples. These spots are generally united in pairs, by 

 very fine dark, angular lines, whose apices join in with the 

 central band. The sides are dark-brown, marked with a con- 

 spicuous, horizontal, straight, white band, which runs round 

 above the spinners without interruption, and thus divides the 

 abdomen into two parts, an upper and a lower one. The under side 

 is also dark brown, marked with white spots and curved lines, 

 the spinners being engirt with a zone of seven or eight well- 

 defined, white spots, forming a horse-shoe, whose open side is in 

 front. 



A few examples of this spider were found among coarse grass 

 and sedge, in a swamp, at Bloxworth, in May, 1863, but I have 

 never met with it since. 



LINYPHIA SETOSA. 



Linyphia setosa, Cambr., Zoologist 1863, p. 8578. 



The adult male of this very distinct and rare spider measures 

 l-10th of an inch in length. 



