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flattened, oblong form ; the abdomen also being rather broader 

 behind than in front. 



The cephalo-thorax is of a pale, semi-diaphanous, yellowish- 

 brown colour. The legs are rather long, slonder, furnished with 

 a few, longish, slendor spines, and similar to the cephalo- 

 thorax in colour ; the tibise and metatarsi often suffused with a 

 darker hue. The eyes are very minute, seated on black spots, 

 and all of a pearly white lustre. The abdomen projects a little 

 over the base of the cephalo-thorax, and is of a dull greenish 

 olive, black-brown colour, marked with some obscure, fine, 

 pale lines and spots, disposed rather regularly, and chiefly visible 

 after the spider has been placed in spirit of wine. The genital 

 aperture is margined with red-brown, and is of a nearly circular 

 form. 



I have not yet met with the male of this spider, but females 

 have been occasionally found on iron railings, at Bloxworth 

 Eectory, in the months of May and June. 



LINYPHIA (?) INCERTA. 



Linyphia (?) inoerta, Cambr., Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1878, 

 p. 117, pi. xi., fig. 2. 



Length of female 1 line. 



Very nearly allied to Linyphia oblonga, Cambr., and closely 

 resembling it, but larger and darker coloured. The eyes are 

 larger and not all pearly white, as in L. oblonga, but the fore- 

 centrals are dark ; the height of the clypeus exceeds half that of 

 the facial space. Legs long, slonder, 1.1.2.3. Spines very long and 

 prominent. Length of 6pine, near tho posterior extremity of the 

 tibiee of fourth pair, equal to (or exceoding) three times the 

 diameter of the joint. Palpi rather long and slender. Abdomen 

 oblong-oval, depressed, and projecting considerably over the 

 base of cephalo-thorax ; it is of a dull brownish-yellow, with a 

 rather darker, tapering stripe on the upper side along the middle 

 of the fore-half. Genital aperture large, and somewhat circular 



