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about half an eye's diameter. The height of the olypeus, which 

 is prominent at its lower margin, exceeds half that of the facial 

 space. 



The legs are of moderate length and strength, 4.1.2.3. They 

 are similar to the cephalo-thorax in colour, and armed with a 

 few slender erect spines, or spine-like bristles, on the upper sides 

 of the genua and tibiae. The difference in length between 4 

 and 1 is very slight. 



The palpi are moderately long, and similar to the legs in 

 colour and armature. 



The falces are rather long, powerful, strongly prominent at 

 their base in front, perpendicular, divergent at their extremities, 

 and armed with a double row of 5-2 teeth of different sizes ; the 

 two central teeth of the anterior row being the strongest. The 

 colour of the falces is like that of the cephalo-thorax. 



Maxilla moderately long, strong, straight, rather rounded on 

 their outer marginal line, and inclined moderately towards the 

 labium, which is of a somewhat short-oblong form, rounded at 

 the apex. 



The abdomen is short-oval, of considerable convexity above, 

 and clothed pretty thickly with coarse dark hairs. Its colour is 

 a dull luteous brownish, deepening to sooty black on the sides 

 and under part, with an indistinct, narrow, longitudinal marking 

 on the fore part of the upper side, followed, to the spinners, by 

 a series of indistinct, sooty, transverse, slightly-angular bars. 

 The process in front of the genital aperture is conspicuous, being 

 broad, and rather vertically prominent. 



Two examples of this spider (which appears to belong to that 

 group of Linyphia comprised in the genus Bathyphantet, (Menge) 

 were found among fallen leaves in Bere Wood, adjoining Blox- 

 worth, towards the end of September, 1878. It is closely allied 

 to Linyphia linguata, Cambr., and may possibly be the female of 

 Nerim rufa (p. 123), the adult female of which is as yet 

 unknown to me. 



