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The profile line of the caput and thorax is nearly straight. 

 The ocular region is slightly prominent, as also is the lower side 

 of the clypeus. The colour of the cephalo-thorax is yellow- 

 brown, strongly suffused with a darker hue on the upper part of 

 the caput and on the sidos, and the sternum is noarly black. 

 The legs are long, rather slender, of a brownish-yellow colour, 

 annulated with blackish-brown ; the spines aro short, not very 

 strong, but tolerably numerous, and prominent. The palpi are 

 like the legs in colour, excepting the digital joint and palpal 

 organs, which are very dark. The radial and cubital joints are 

 short ; the former is much tho strongest, and has a rather compact 

 group of numerous long, black bristles on the outer side towards 

 the base in front. The digital joint is large, and the palpal 

 organs are very prominent and complex, with several strong pro- 

 cesses, and a spiral spine at their extremity, near which is also 

 some fringod membrane, like that connected with the palpal 

 organs of Linyphia clathrata, Sund. 



The abdomen is of a yellowish, dull-brown hue, on the upper 

 side, which is enclosed by a border, near tho margin, of irregular 

 black spots and markings. The long-oval space enclosed, is 

 truncated by a line of white spots above the spinners, and is 

 more or less speckled with white, with a longitudinal series of 

 black, curved, angular bars, those on the fore part more or less 

 defective, and often altogether wanting. The sides are dull 

 yellow-brown, speckled with white, and marked, mostly forwards, 

 with black. The under side is nearly black, with four white 

 spots forming a large, central, quadrangular figure. 



The female is lighter coloured and larger than the male. 



This spider is nearly allied to L. clathrata, but is larger, and 

 has a loss distinct pattern on the abdomen ; the legs also are 

 more uniformly annulated ; and whereas that species is never, so 

 far as I know, found on bushes, but only among low plants and 

 herbage near the ground, the present is most commonly met 

 with in such situations, where it spins tho most perfect snare 

 of its kind ; the snare consists of a horizontal sheet of finely 

 textured silken web, upheld by numerous tightly-strained, per- 



