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plex, with various prooesses, among which the most conspiououa 

 is a large, projecting, curved one at their base on the outer side. 



The sternum is large, and heart .shaped ; its fore extremity 

 strongly concave or circularly indented ; and it is of a yellowish 

 colour, suffused with dusky-black. 



The abdomen is small, of a somewhat elongate-oval form, and 

 of a blackish hue, tinged with olive green, and thinly clothed 

 with hairs. 



An example of this spider, which may be readily distinguished 

 from many other small species of Linyphia by the close grouping 

 of the eyes, and the dark femora of the first and second pairs of 

 legs, was found near Sherborne, in the autumn of 1878, by my 

 nephew, Frederick P. Cambridge. 



LINYPHIA INCONSPICUA. 



Linyphia inoonsfioua, Camlr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 432. 



The length of the male is 1-1 7th of an inch. 



The cephalo-thorax (which has a narrow blackish margin), 

 together with the legs and palpi and other fore parts, are pale 

 yellow, the sternum slightly suffused with blackish. The 

 abdomen, which projects a little over the base of the cephalo- 

 thorax, is of a pale, whitish-brown colour on the upper side, 

 reticulated with a darker hue, forming an indistinct, central, 

 longitudinal, pale, narrow, denticulate band, pointed at its 

 hinder part, reaching nearly to the spinners, and sending out 

 pale lateral lines. The underside is suffused with black, and the 

 spiraoular plates are pale yellow. The eyes are rather large and 

 closely grouped, seated on black (almost confluent) spots, and 

 the interval between those of the hind-central pair is distinctly 

 greater than that between each and the lateral eye, of the same 

 row, next to it. The legs are long and slender, and the spines 

 are long and slender also. The palpi are short; the radial joint 

 is much stronger than the cubital, and, like that of most of this 

 genus, dilated at its anterior extremity, and furnished with a few 

 longish, bristly hairs, of which one is longer and stronger than 



