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plex, with a strong curved process at their base on the outer 

 side. 



The eyes are rather small, but do not differ greatly in size ; 

 they are seated on small black spots, and those of the posterior 

 row are equidistant from each other ; the height of the 

 clypeus (which is not impressed, but is a little prominent below) 

 is half that of the facial space. The falces are a little divergent 

 at their extremity, and are directed strongly backwards towards 

 the sternum, which is of a blackish-brown colour. 



The abdomen projects, but very slightly, over the base of the 

 cephalo-thorax, and is of a brownish-black colour. 



This is an obscure spider, and allied to Linyphia o blivia, Cambr., 

 but may be distinguished by the less abrupt slope of the hinder 

 part of the thorax ; in L. ollivia the thorax is also 

 perceptibly higher (in profile) than the caput, whereas it is not 

 so in the present spider ; the relative distances also between the 

 eyes of the posterior row differ. Nor could I, on close examina- 

 tion, observe any curved process at the base, on the outer side, 

 of the palpal organs of L. ollivia. 



A single example beaten from a furze bush, at Bloxworth, in 

 the summer of 1863. 



LINYPHIA PALLIDA. 



Linyphia pallida, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 435, 

 pi. 56, No. 26. 



The length of the male is 1-1 2th of an inch. 



The caput is not elevated, the profile line forming a gradually 

 rising slope to the ocular area, which is a little prominent. The 

 cephalo-thorax is of a dusky yellow hue, tinged with orange, 

 and its surface is minutely punctured with very fine impressed 

 dots. The clypeus is prominent, and its height is half that of 

 the facial space. The eyes are on small black spots, and the 

 interval between those of the hind-central pair is rather greater 

 than that between each and the lateral eye next to it. The legs 

 are long and rather slender ; the relative length of those of the 



