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the next is shorter, more obtuse, but more bent, and directed 

 inwards, and the third and least conspicuous is behind ; digital 

 joint rather large, rod-brown ; palpal organs complex, with a 

 moderate sized, black, fine pointed spine, circularly curved, and 

 closely adhering to the outer side of their fore-extremity. 

 Abdomen black, and of a rather narrow-oval form. 



The female resembles the male in colours and general appear- 

 ance, but the caput of course wants the cloft ominonco ; that part 

 is, however, rather elevated, and between it and the thorax is a 

 deep impression, very observablo when seen in profile. The eyes 

 are closely grouped together ; those of the anterior row, together 

 with the lateral pairs, forming an almost uninterrupted curvod 

 line. The interval between each hind-central eye and the 

 hind-lateral next to it is less than that vhich separates the two 

 hind-central eyes from each other. 



A single example of the male was found some years ago in 

 Caen Wood, near London, and sent to me by the late Mr. 

 Richard Beck. Another was met with among moss in Bero 

 "Wood, in April, 1879, by my nephow, Frodorick 0. P. Cambridge, 

 and shortly afterwards I found several fomales among moss in a fir 

 plantation, near Bloxworth. More recently still (in the autumn 

 of 1879 and spring of 1880) I have met with numerous adults of 

 both sexes among moss in the same plantation. It is an exceed- 

 ingly remarkablo spider, and the male can hardly be mistaken 

 for any other known species ; but the female is very similar to 

 that of the last spider described, Walckcnaera jucundissima. It 

 may, howovor, be distinguished without much difficulty by the 

 different relativo position of the eyes. 



GENUS LINYPHIA, Latr. 



LINYPIIIA EELATIVA. 



Linyphia relativa, Cumhr., Ann. and Mag., Nat. Hist. 1879, 

 ser. 5, vol. 4, p. 20b. 



Length of an adult male slightly over ope line. 

 Cephalo-thorax broadish-oval, slightly constricted on the 



