514 



without very acourated enlarged figures. The height of the 

 clypaus is equal to half that of the facial space. 

 Found near Dunkeld, Scotland, and also near Glasgow. 



LINYPHIA ALBULA. 



Linyphia albxtla, Canibr., Ann. and Mag. N.H., 3, ser. vii., p. 

 435, and Blaekw. I.e., p. 241, pi. xviii., 

 fig. 161. 



Length of the female l-8th of an inch. 



Cephalo-thor'aT pale brownish-yellow, marked with obsoure, 

 brownish, converging lines on the sides. 



Eyes on black spots. 



Legs long and slender ; spines few and fine, pale yellowish ; 

 tarsi and metatarsi suffusod with a darker hue. 



Abdomen slender, oval, or rather cylindrical ; yellowish-white 

 above and on the sides ; a narrow central dull yellowish-brown taper- 

 ing baud, emitting several short, fine, lateral, oblique branches , 

 fines down to dark line above the spinners, just above which are 

 six or eight small brown spots arranged in a longitudinal series 

 of pairs, the second and third pairs being nearer together than 

 the first and second. Underside dull yellow-brown, spotted 

 thickly with white, and bordered on each side by a faint brown 

 line which runs to the spinners. 



Found on a holly bush at Hursley, near Winchester, in May, 

 1860. It is apparently allied to Linyphia peltata (p. 229). 



LINYPHIA SUBNIGRIPES. 



Linyfhia subnigripes, Cambr., Ann. and Mag. N.H., s. 5, vol. 

 iv., p. 204 (1879). 



Length of an adult female If lines. 



The cephalo-thorax is of ordinary form ; its colour is yellow- 

 brown, marked with a dusky-brown marginal line and indistinct 

 converging bars, following the course of tho normal indenta- 

 tions. There is also a central longitudinal line of the same 

 colour. 



The eyes are seated on black spots, those of tho posterior row 



