207 



LINYPHIA ABNORMIS. 



Neriene abnormis, Blackw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 286, 

 pi. xix., fig. 200. 



The male measures about l-8th of an inch in length, and the 

 female is somewhat larger. 



The caput does not rise above the level of the thorax. The 

 cephalo-thorax is of a brownish-red colour ; the legs reddish- 

 brown, armed with a few long fine spines ; and the abdomen is 

 of a darkish brown colour, obscurely mottled with a still darker 

 hue. 



The digital joint of the palpus has a large lobe on the outer 

 side ; the palpal organs are prominent, and very complex, 

 with a very large irregular process at their base on the outer 

 side. 



The female resembles the male in colours, but is rather paler, 

 and larger. 



Two examples only have been found in Dorsetshire — at Blox- 

 worth, among heather, in summer time. Mr. Blackwall has also 

 found it in Lancashire. 



LINYPHIA LINGUATA. 



Lintphia LrNGTOATA, Camlr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii., p. 537, pi. 

 xlvi., fig. 8. 



The length of the female is very nearly l-6th of an inch. 



The whole of the fore part (including the cephalo-thorax, 

 palpi, and logs) is of an orange-yellow colour. The abdomen 

 is pale yellow-brown, with a rather indistinct, darker, 

 longitudinal stripe along the middle of the fore half of the 

 upper side, followed towards the spinners by several transverse 

 angular stripes of a similar nature and colour ; the sides are 

 slightly suffused with a dusky hue, and the under side has a 



