523 



with a curvod, rather slender, some- what crescent- shapod process 

 on thoir outer side. 



Found on the Cheviot Hills. 



LINYPHIA MICROPHTHALMA. 



Linyphia microphthalmia, Camlr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 

 434, pi. 56, No. 25. 



Length of the male 1 line. 



Closely alliod to Linyphia decern (p. 217). 



Cephalo -thorax brownish-yellow, rather depressed, and with 

 vory slight lateral marginal constrictions at the caput. Eyes very 

 6mall, all pearly white, in two nearly approximated transverse 

 lines; the interval botween those of the hind-central pair is 

 rather less than that between oach and the hind-lateral eye next 

 to it. Legs long, slender, yellow ; spines few but long. Falces 

 long, slightly divergent. Palpi slender, radial joint stronger 

 than the cubital, and enlarged towards its fore extremity. 

 Digital joint large, with a prominence near the base on 

 the outer margin, rather darker coloured than the rest, and 

 furnished with bristly hairs on the upper side. Palpal organs 

 prominent and complex ; at their base on the outer side is 

 a large, prominent, strongly curved process, with a small notch 

 near its rounded termination ; and at their extremity is a short, 

 duplex, coilod black spine. Abdomen elongato-oval, of a some- 

 what depressed form ; its colour boing yellowish, suffused slightly 

 with sooty-brown. 



Pound in the neighbourhood of London, by the late Mr. 

 Richard Beck. 



LINYPHIA MARGINATA. 



Linyphia makginata, C. L. Koch, Die Arachn., Bd. xii. p. 118, 

 Tab. 423, figs. 1041 and 1042. 

 „ triangularis, Blackw., I.e., p. 212, pi. xv., fig. 139. 

 Length of the female l-5th of an inch. The male being smaller 

 and slenderer in the abdomen. 



