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This spider is nearly allied to Linyphia tenelricola, "Wid., from 

 which it may easily be distinguished by its stouter form and 

 generally yellower colouring ; it is also allied to Linyphiaalacris, Bl., 

 from which the absence of the central longitudinal dentatedbandon 

 the abdomen, as well as the hollow profile line of the clypeus, at 

 once distinguish it. It is rather a rare spider among moss, grass, 

 and other low herbage in open places in woods at Bloxworth in 

 the months of April and May. I have also received it from 

 Berwickshire. 



LINYPHIA PULLATA. 



Linyphia PULLATA, Cambr., Zool. 1863, p. 8580, and Linn. 

 Trans, xxviii., p. 446, pi. xxxiv., fig. 12. 



The length of the male is 1-1 0th of an inch. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a yellow-brown colour, considerably 

 suffused on the sides and margins with blackish. The caput is 

 neither elevated nor prominent in front. The legs are long, 

 slender, and bright yellow ; relative length, 1.2.4.3., not 1.4.2.3., 

 as 1. c. Spines moderately strong. The palpi are short ; the 

 radial and cubital joints short, the former the stronger, and 

 furnished with some longish, curved, bristly hairs in front, and 

 the latter has a strongish, tapering bristle at its fore extremity. 

 The digital joint is large, and of a somewhat elongate-oval form, 

 with a lobe on its outer side. The palpal organs are tolerably 

 compact, and not very complex. The ordinary curved process at 

 their base, on the outer side, is not very prominent nor con- 

 spicuous, though its form is characteristic ; and there are two or 

 three corneous, spine-like processes, near their extremity, one of 

 them being of a rather hooked form, and the others also rather 

 bent, but neither of them very prominent nor conspicuous. The 

 falces are long, rather attenuate at their extremities, which are 

 considerably divergent. The abdomen is of a dark, dull, suffused, 

 yellowish-brown colour on the upper side, with a longitudinal 

 central series of obscure black angular bars, of which the 

 extremities are often dilated; the sides and under side are 



