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but is larger. The genital proooss is characteristic but not con- 

 spicuously prominent. 



Two males and a female of this spider were found in a swamp 

 near Bloxworth at the end of June, 1879. 



Tho male may easily be distinguished from Linyphia ollivia, 

 Cambr., Linyphia ollita, Ibid., and some other allied and rather 

 obscure spocies, by tho narrower form of the digital joints of 

 the palpi. 



LINYPHIA PEUDENS. 



Linyphia mtTDENS, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii., p. 538, 

 pi. xlvi., fig. 9. 



Length of the male 1J line. Female rather larger. 



The profile of tho cephalo-thorax of this spider is rounded, 

 and thoro is a slight depression bohind tho occiput, the posterior 

 slopo being very gradual, but the general level of tho caput and 

 thorax are not very differont. The colour of the cephalo-thorax, 

 legs, palpi, falcos, and maxillas is palo, dull, orange-yellow. 



The posterior row of eyes, looked at from in front, is rather 

 strongly curved ; tho anterior row much less so, its central pair 

 of eyos being placed a little above the straight lino formed by 

 the lateral eyes. The intervals between those of the posterior 

 row are equal, and rather loss than the diameter of one of the 

 central pair, oach of the latter being separated from the fore- 

 contral eye nearest to it by a rather loss interval still. All aro 

 seated on small black spots ; those of the lateral pairs are placed 

 obliquely on a tubercle, and are tho largest of the eight. The 

 fore-centrals are smallest and contiguous to each other. All are 

 of a pearly white excepting the fore-centrals which are dark 

 groy. Tho height of tho clypeus exceeds half that of the facial 

 space. 



Tho legs are slender, moderately long — 4.1.2.3. — furnished 

 •with hairs and a few very fine spines. 



The palpi aro short ; tho radial joints are stronger than the 

 cubital, and from tho anterior margin of each, on tho uppor sido, 



