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runs forwards and upwards ; and the hinder extremity on each 

 side is followed towards the spinners by two oblique, more or 

 less long and perfect, black stripes. 



The female closely resembles the male in colours and markings. 



The angular bars on the upper sido are so broad, well defined, 

 and near together that the intermediate spaces might be correctly 

 described as greenish yellow-white, angular lines on a brown 

 ground. 



This very distinct and pretty spider is not rare on the trunks 

 of Scotch fir trees near Bloxworth, spinning its snare among the 

 rough bark. It is also found in Scotland. 



LINYPHIA LUTEOLA. 



Linyphia ltjteola, Blaekw., Lond. and Edin. Phil. Mag., 3rd 



ser., iii., p. 192. 

 alticeps, Blaekw, Spid. Great Brit, and Irel. p. 226, 



pi. xvi., fig. 149. 

 The length of the male is about l-6th to l-7th of an inch. 

 The caput is considerably (but gradually) elevated, and promin- 

 ent, its fore part being of a somewhat truncated or bluntish- 

 conical form, and its extremity is furnished with many strong, 

 black bristles. The colour of the cephalo-thorax is pale straw 

 yellow, with a black margin, and a rather fine, longitudinal, 

 central line. The legs are long, slender, similar to the cephalo- 

 thorax in colour, and the spines are moderately strong and con- 

 spicuous; their relative length is 1.2.4.3. The palpi, of the 

 male, are short, the humeral joint is strong, the cubital and 

 radial joints are about equal in length, and at tho fore end of the 

 upper side of the former is a longish, strong, slightly bent 

 spine-like bristle of equal strength throughout, furnished with small 

 projecting points underneath, somewhat bifid at the extremity, 

 and pointingdownwards and forwards, from a small tubercular pro- 

 tuberance, almost in a line with the radial joint, which it exceeds 

 in length. The digital joint is of moderate size, and the palpal 

 organs are prominent and complex, with various points and pro- 

 cesses, but none of a very conspicuous nature. The abdomen 



