222 

 LINYPHIA CLATHBATA. 



Linypiiia clathrata, Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr. in Vet. Akad. 

 Handl., f. 1829, p. 218. 



Nerienb marginata, Bl., Spid. Great Brit, and Irol., p. 249, 

 pi. xvii., fig. 167. 



The male measures about l-7th of an inch in length. 



The caput is not raised above the thorax, excepting that the 

 profile line rises gradually, in a very slight curve, from the hinder, 

 extremity of the latter, to the eyes. The colour of the cephalo- 

 thorax is a rich blackish-brown. The legs are long, moder- 

 ately strong and of a reddish-yellow hue, sometimes annulated 

 with brown. Their rolative length is 1.4.2.3. The spines are 

 short and rather slender. The palpi are short, and of a much 

 duskier hue than the legs, the digital joint, which is large, being 

 deep black-brown ; the radial is much stronger than the cubital 

 joint, and is furnished with numerous long, bristly, black,prominent 

 hairs on the outer side, the thickest part of the group forming 

 a sort of pointed tuft. The palpal organs are prominent and com- 

 plex, but tolerably compact, and of a deep brown-black colour ; 

 a large curved process originating on their inner side has its 

 sharp point directed downwards on the outer side, and there is 

 a spirally coiled spine at their extremity, with some prominent 

 transparent membrane whose margin is slightly fringed. 



The abdomen of the male is of a somewhat narrow, oblong- 

 oval form ; it is of a brownieh-black colour, with a marginal 

 band of a brown hue, spotted closely with white, strongly 

 dentated along the sides of the abdomen, and continued, but no t 

 dentated, above the spinners ; at the fore extromity it is divided 

 by the anterior portion of a strong, black, somewhat cruciform 

 marking; and a longitudinal series of curved, angular, dull, 

 brownish bars, spotted with white, occupies the middle of the 

 upper side. According to the preponderance of the black, or 

 white spotted portions, either may be taken as the ground 

 colour of the upper part; in the above description the black 



