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straight, not arched. The fore-tibiae are somewhat stronger than the 

 hinder ones, the bristles on the legs are coarse, almost like spines: 

 such at least is the case with a couple on the upper side of the 

 thighs and one on the. inner side of the tibice of the first pair of legs, 

 and I therefore think it best to refer this species to Linyphia, as 

 Cambridge does, calling it L. experta } ). The patellar and tibial joints 

 of the palpus are together almost as long as the patella of the 1st 

 pair: the patellar joint is conical, scarcely longer than it is broad 

 at the apex, with a long, curved bristle at the extremity, above, 

 which bristle is not coarser than the coarsest bristles on the legs; 

 the tibial joint is of the same length and diameter as the patellar 

 joint, though somewhat dilated in a rounded form underneath: 

 viewed from above its length is a little greater than its breadth, and 

 it is oval-cylindrical, provided with hair, and, towards the apex, 

 with a longish, finer bristle. The clava is hardly thicker than the 

 thighs of the l:st pair, about as long as the two preceding joints 

 together, but nearly double as thick: the lamina has a protuberance 

 near the base on the outside. The bulbus at the base , on the outer 

 side, exhibits a small, projecting protuberance {not a large, coarse, 

 curved appendage) and from its under side, also near the base, pro- 

 ceeds almost at rigid, angles a small appendage, slenderer and a little 

 curved at the base, slightly increasing in thickness and almost straight 

 towards the extremity. The circularly curved membranous band out- 

 side the bulbus in E. rufa or erythroeephald is absent here, as well 

 as in E. silvestris Westr. and E. cequalis Westr. (Vid. infr.). 



(Pag. 269.) 39. E. pinguis [= Erigone livida (Blackw.) 1836 



+ Erigone arundineti ».]. 

 E. livida (Blackw.): 



Syn.: 1836. Neriene livida Blackw., Charact. etc., in Lond. and Edinb. Phil. 



Mag., 3 Ser., VIII, p. 486. 

 1851. Erigone pinguis Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 43. 

 1864. Neriene livida Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 252, PI. XVIII, 



fig. 169. 



Westring says p. 271 of the males of his E. pinguis: "Indivi- 

 duum unicum cepi, quod clava duplo crassiore quam mandibulse vel 



l) Cambridge, to whom I have sent a male, informs me that he has 

 described and figured this species under the name of Lin. experta in a paper 

 that is now in the press. 



