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are occasionally a few darker markings above, these soon fade 

 away in spirit of wine. 



Theocular areais rather conspicuous, from the eyesbeing placed 

 on strong black spots, and closely grouped together. 



The female is larger, but resembles the male in colour. 



Found very rarely among heather at Bloxworth, in late 

 summer and autumn, and occasionally in spring ; but received 

 more frequently from the Northumberland and Berwickshire 

 moors, as well as from other parts of Scotland. It has also 

 been met with in North Wales, and in Yorkshire. 



LINYPHIA CIRCUMSPECTA. 



Lintphia oirotjmspeota, BlaoTcw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 

 246, pi. xvii., fig. 165. 



The male measures about 1-1 3th of an inch in length. 



The caput is neither elevated, nor prominent at the eyes. The 

 colour of the cephalo-thorax is yellow-brown ; the legs and palpi 

 are rather paler, and the spines on the former are not very long 

 nor conspicuous. The radial and cubital joints are short, the 

 former is stronger than the other, the digital j oint being of moderate 

 size. The palpal organs are complex, but present no very notice- 

 able process ; a slender black spine forms a coil at their 

 extremity, and within the coil appears the short prominent point 

 of another small black spine, or process. The abdomen is of a 

 yellowish-brown colour above, the sides and under side being 

 darker. A longitudinal series of dark-brown, or blackish angular 

 bars, occupies the middle of the upper side ; these are sometimes 

 almost obsolete, at other times the darker portions of the upper 

 side prevail, and the central line has then a series of more or less 

 perfect angular bars of a pale yellow-brown colour; in some 

 examples the vertices of these angular bars are wanting, leaving 

 a series of oblique elongate spots in pairs. 



The female is rather larger than the male, and its abdomen is 

 very convex above ; the pattern also is usually far more distinct 

 on the upper side than in the male, 



