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and length (1.2.4.3.), pale yellow tinged with greenish brown, 

 broadly and distinctly banded, excepting the tarsi, with brownish 

 black. Abdomen dull greenish yellow-white. A broadish 

 longitudinal black band runs backwards to the spinners from 

 near the fore oxtremity of the uppor side, and contains two some- 

 what triangular whitish markings forwards, each divided longi- 

 tudinally by a black line ; following these markings towards 

 the spinners are several more or less angular whitish lines, the 

 angles directed forwards. The sides are irregularly marked 

 with blackish, the under side completely black. The process 

 connected with the genital aperture is (like that of all the females 

 of this genus) prominent and characteristic in its form. 



Found in Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, in tho month of 

 February. 



LINYPHIA FLAVIPES. 



LiNYPniA flavipes, Blachw., I.e., p. 247, pi. xvii., fig. 166. 



Length of the male 1 line. Male rather smaller and longer 

 legged. 



This spider is very closely allied to, even if it be not identical 

 with, Linyphia pullata, Cambr. (p. 197). As, however, Mr. 

 Blackwall on examination of the latter, at the time of its 

 discovery, considered it to be distinct, I have so retained it. 



Cephalo-thorax brownish black ; logs long, slender ; spines 

 fine, yellow; radial joint of palpus of male stronger than 

 the cubital, and somewhat produced in front ; digital joint oval, 

 with a lobe on the outer side ; palpal organs directed outwards, 

 protuberant, complex, with a curved prominent procoss neai the 

 base on the outer side, and a few very short pointed ones at the 

 extremity. Abdomen brownish black ; somo oxamples have an 

 obscure series of slightly angular linos of a pale brown hue along 

 the upper side. 



Found among moss, in woods in summor time, in North Wales, 

 and also in Norfolk. [I have never seen an authentic oxamplo 

 of this spider.] 



