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Blackwall's type-specimens of this little LinypMa have been 

 lost, but the Eev. Mr Cambridge has sent me a cf and $ of a spe- 

 / cies from Scotland, which he considers identical with it, and to 

 which L. ericcea Blackw. cT also appears to me to belong, though 

 as regards the females I doubt their identity. — In the male the 

 spines of the legs are fine and very long, on the upper part of the 

 tibiae at least three times as long as the joint's diameter; the thighs 

 of the l:st pair have one spine, those of the others none; the meta- 

 tarsi towards the base exhibit one very fine spine. The eyes are 

 situated very close together, the distance between them being no- 

 where, not even between the posterior centre eyes, so great as an 

 eye's diameter. The height of the clypeus is hardly so great as the 

 length of the area of the centre eyes. The patellar joint of the palpi 

 is scarcely longer than it is broad ; the tibial joint is as long as the 

 patellar, somewhat thicker, broader towards the apex: when viewed 

 from the side, it is convex both above and below, and broader than it 

 is long, with a tolerably strong bristle above. The bulbus exhibits 

 a short upward and outward turned tooth on the outer side towards 

 the base. Cephalothorax and legs are of a pale brownish yellow co- 

 lour, the abdomen above whitish- or greyish yellow, almost uniform in 

 colour; the sternum and belly are soot-coloured, which colour ex- 

 tends a little above the anus. — The female is in colour similar to 

 the male, except that her cephalothorax and extremities are darker, 

 yellowish brown. The vulva consists of a short, thick protube- 

 rance, rounded at the apex, directed backwards, and paler along the 

 middle of the under side; the "four prominent contiguous processes 

 directed obliquely downwards and backwards , the posterior being the 

 shortest", which according to Blackwall are connected with the 

 sexual organs, are not to be found in the specimen that I have seen, 

 which nevertheless appears to be full-grown, and I therefore think 

 that the female described by Blackwall is not the right female to 

 L. enema n. ; which moreover is not, as Blackwall says of the fe- 

 male described by him, much larger than the male. 



(Pag. 241.) linyphia albula [= LinypMa albula Cambk. 1861]. 



Syn.: 1861. Lintphia albula Cambb., Descr. of ten new spec, of spid. , cet, in 



Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 3 Ser., VII, p. 435. 



?. The thighs of the first pair have three fine, short spines, 

 the two next following pairs have each one, the last pair none; the 



