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nates with three short teeth, of which the middle one is shorter and 

 slenderer than the others. 



In the only female specimen that I have seen, the back of the 

 abdomen has two rows of large, dark, rounded, closely arranged spots, 

 and a fine, not very distinct, dark, longitudinal middle-line; a still 

 larger dark, rounded spot is met with on each side, in front, and 

 a couple of oblique, less distinct, oblong spots behind them; the 

 greyish yellow, light-mottled ground-colour between the spots forms 

 narrow, more or less complete rings around them. The belly is dark 

 brown. In the specimens of the male sex which I have had the 

 opportunity of seeing, the back of the abdomen is of an almost uni- 

 form dark-brown colour, only with indistinct transverse bands behind 

 and similar spots in front. 



(Pag. 246.) Linyphia circumspecta [= Linyphia circumspecta 



Blackw. 1854]. 



Syn.: 1854. LlNYPHIA CIRCUMSPECTA Blackw., Descr. of some newly disc, spec., 



cet., in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 2 Ser., 

 Xin, p. 177. 



Of this species I have only seen a male specimen, for which I 

 have to thank Mr Cambridge: its colour is considerably darker than 

 that of Blackw all's figure. The cephalothorax is dark-brown, blackish 

 towards the margin; the legs are pale brownish yellow, with the 

 joints blackish only at the extreme apex; the abdomen is of a dark 

 olive colour, with 5 or 6*pale transverse bands, which are almost 

 straight, scarcely bent into an angle, and of which the anterior are 

 more or less distinctly broken off in the middle, so that the first 

 thus forms two large somewhat rounded spots. The thighs of the 

 first pair have one fine spine, the two succeeding pairs have each a 

 very short, rudimentary spine; the metatarsi appear to be destitute 

 of spines (?); the spines on the tibia? are scarcely double as long as 

 the joint's diameter. The clypeus is transversely depressed, not 

 higher than the length of the area of the centre eyes. The poste- 

 rior centre eyes are a little farther from each other than from the 

 lateral eyes, but their distance from each other is not fully an eye's 

 diameter. The anterior row of eyes is straight, and the eyes dis- 

 tributed along it at about equal distances. The reddish brown genital 

 bulb has on the outer side, towards the base, a strong, inward 



