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I have since met with several examples of both sexes (at the 

 end of September, 1878), among rushes and sedge, in a swamp, 

 near Bloxworth. 



LINYPHIA SOCIALIS. 



Linyphia socialis, Sund., Blaohw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., 

 p. 222, pi. xvi., fig. 747. 



The male measures about l-7th of an inch in length. 



The caput of the male is rather elevated and prominent before. 

 The cephalo-thorax is yellow-brown, with black margins, and a 

 contral, narrow, longitudinal, black bar bifid at its fore extremity. 

 Tho sides also are marked with short converging, somewhat 

 elongate, triangular black spots, indicating the normal converg- 

 ing grooves. 



The falces are long, divergent at their extremities, and have 

 a few strong spine-like bristles in front. 



The legs are long, slender, of a pale yellowish colour, 

 annulated with brownish-black. Their relative length is 1.2.4.3. 

 The palpi of the male are yellowish, and of moderate length ; 

 the cubital and radial joints are short, the latter is the strongest 

 and very convex on its outer side ; the digital joint has a 

 prominent lobe on its outer side, and a deep red-brown, pointed, 

 curved process at its base directed outwards. The palpal organs 

 are complex, with various prominent corneous processes, of 

 which the most conspicuous is a large curved one, with one obtuse 

 end pointed upwards above the base of tho digital joint, and the 

 other end projecting prominently outwards and strongly cleft, or 

 of a somewhat bifid form. 



The abdomen is of a dull yellowish-green hue on the upper side, 

 thickly speckled with small white spots, and has a longitudinal, 

 central series of angular brown bars, the extremities of which 

 are often considerably expanded ; tho fore extremity is engirt, 

 rather underneath, with a strong black band, which extends 

 about half way along each side, and has two or more white 

 spots placed in a transverse lino at the middle part ; from near 

 each hinder extremity of this band an oblique bar or strong line 



