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region is very slightly prominent. The colour of the cephalo- 

 thorax is yellowish-brown; the legs and palpi being a littl* 

 lighter in hue. The legs are long and very slender (1.4.2.3.); 

 the spines on the legs are fine and short, but distinct and nearly 

 erect. The palpi (excepting the digital joints) are short; the 

 radial is stronger than the cubital joint, being prominent at its 

 fore-extremity and on the inner side, with several long, strong 

 bristles in front. The digital joint is long and of an irregular 

 oval form, drawn out before, and with a prominence towards 

 the base on the outer side, and two smaller ones close to its base 

 in front. The palpal organs are prominent and complex ; among 

 the various proceses is one which extends beneath them through- 

 out their whole length, and has its fine filiform termination 

 curved in an almost circular form at their extremity. The falces 

 are long, rather weak, and divergent. The abdomen is of a deep, 

 slightly brownish-black colour. 



The female is larger than the male, but resembles it in colours ; 

 the abdomen projects considerably ovor the base of the cephalo- 

 thorax. The genital process is long, slender, cylindrical, very 

 slightly curved, of a semi-diaphanous, pale, yellow-brown 

 colour, and directed backwards in close proximity to tho under 

 surface of the abdomen. 



Found, though not abundantly, at Bloxworth and in other 

 localities in Dorsetshire, among moss and under stones and logs 

 in woods during spring and early summer time. It occurs also 

 in other parts of England, as well as in Scotland and North 

 Wales. The palpi of tho male (of which the digital joint and 

 palpal organs almost equal in length the whole of the rest of 

 the palpus) and the long, slender, genital process of the 

 female are remarkably characteristic of this spider, and vendor 

 it an easily distinguished species. 



LINYPHIA INSIGNIS. 



Linypiiia insignis, Blaehw., Spid. Great Brit, and Irel., p. 238, 

 pi. xvii., fig. 168. 

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



