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the rest. The digital joint is of moderate size, with a small lobe 

 on its outer side. The palpal organs are rather oomplex, with a 

 curved process, near their base on the outer side, having a short, 

 fine, spiny, black point almost touching the outer extremity of 

 the radial joint. 



The female is larger and darker coloured than the male, and 

 her abdomen projects greatly over the cephalo-thorax ; her legs 

 also differ in their relative length, those of the fourth pair being 

 apparently longer than those of the second. 



This spider is very closely allied to Linyphia ericma, Bl., but 

 may be distinguished by the interval between the hind-central 

 pair of eyes being very distinctly greater than that between each 

 and the lateral next to it, whereas in Linyphia erictea the inter- 

 vals between the eyes of that row are equal, or, if anything, very 

 slightly greater between the hind-centrals. The genital process 

 of the female also differs in structure. The palpal organs of the 

 male are very similar in both species. 



An adult male and females were found among herbage in a 

 wood at Bloxworth, in April, 1867, but it has not been met with 

 since. 



LINYPHIA OBLIVIA 



LnrrPHiA oblivia, Camlr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii., p. 446, 

 pi. xxxiv., fig. 13. 



The length of the male is 1-1 6th of an inch. 



The caput is slightly lower (when looked at in profile) than the 

 thorax, and is a very little prominent at the eyes. The cephalo- 

 thorax is yellow-brown, margined with black-brown; at the 

 hinder part of the caput is a largish, somewhat quadrate, black- 

 brown patch, with some lateral converging lines of the same hue. 



The eyes do not differ much in size; those of the hind- 

 central pair are very slightly further apart than each is from 

 the lateral next to it ; those of the fore-central pair are the 

 smallest, and have a distinct, though very small, interval 

 between them. The cubital and radial joints of the palpi are 



