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Pound among grass, in North Wales, in the month of Septem- 

 ber. [I have never seen this spider.J 



LINYPHIA FURVA. 



LlNYPHIA FTOVA, Bhckw., l.C, p. 253. 



Length of the female l-9th of an inch. Male rather smaller. 



Cephalo-thoi ax dark-brown, approaching black. Legs long 

 and slender ; spines erect, and, with the palpi, yellowish-brown. 

 Fakes long, strong, divergent at the extremity, and inclined 

 towards the sternum. Abdomen glossy, brownish-black. Male 

 similar in colour. Cubital and radial joints of the palpi short ; 

 radial much strongest and produced on the inner side. Digital 

 joint somewhat oval, with a prominent lobe on the inner side 

 near its extremity. Palpal organs highly developed, and com- 

 plex, with two contiguous, black, spiral spines, enveloped in 

 delicate membrane, at their extremity. 



Found under stones in moist meadows, in North "Wales, in the 

 month of May. [I have not seen this spider.] 



LINYPHIA TENELLA. 



LlNYPHIA TENELLA, Blackw., l.C, p. 246. 



Length of the femalo 1-1 lth of an inch. 



Cephalo-thorax very dark brown. Eyes on black spots, the 

 four central ones on a slight protuberance. Legs long, slender, 

 1.4.2.3. Spines fine; colour light yellowish-red. Abdomen 

 glossy, dull olive-green ; under part darkest. Along the middle 

 of the upper side is a very obscure series of angular linos of a 

 deeper shade. The genital process consists of two parallel, 

 convex, glossy, red-brown prominences. 



Pound at Bradford, Yorkshire, in the month of September. 

 [I have not seen this spider.] 



LINYPHIA NASATA. 

 Linyphia nasata, Blackw., I.e., p. 237, pi. xviii., fig. 158. 

 Length of the female l-12th of an inch. 



