NEW SPECIES OF EUROPEAN SPIDERS. 536 



far as I can ascertain, it seems to be of an undescribed and very 

 distinct species, upon which I have great pleasure in conferring the 

 finder's name. 



Family TIIERIDIIDES. 

 Genus Llntphia (Latr.). 



LlNYPHIA LEPIDA, Sp. n. PI. XV. fig. 7« 



Adult female, length 1^ line. 



The cephalothorax of this pretty species is yellow, margined with dusky 

 blackish, the normal indentations, as well as a large wedge-shaped 

 marking behind the eyes being suffused with sooty brown ; in form it 

 is of the ordinary type, though rather less convex, perhaps, than 

 usual ; the clypeus is prominent at its lower margin ; and its height 

 is rather greater than half that of the facial space. 



The eyes are not very unequal in size, and are seated on strong black 

 spots in the ordinary position ; those of the hinder row are equidistant 

 from each other; and those of the fore central pair (which are conti- 

 guous to each other) are separated from those of the hind central pair 

 by about the same interval as that which separates the latter from each 

 other ; those of each lateral pair are seated obliquely, and contiguously 

 to each other, on a tubercle. 



The legs are slender and moderate in length ; they are similar in colour 

 to the cephalothorax, marked, however, slightly with blackish on the 

 joints, and are furnished with hairs and fine black spines. 



The falces are yellow, of moderate length and strength, a little promi- 

 nent at their base in front, slightly divergent, and armed with but two 

 or three very small, sharp, red-brown teeth near their inner extre- 

 mities. 



The maxillce are strong, of normal form, yellow in colour, and a little in- 

 clined to the labium, which last is very short, and of a nearly semicir- 

 cular form. 



The sternum is heart-shaped and yellow, suffused with dusky black. 



The abdomen is large, oval, very, but not excessively, convex above, and 

 projecting over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dull ground- 

 colour, pretty thickly blotched above and on the sides with irregular 

 cretaceous yellowish-white spots ; in the central line of the fore half of 

 the upperside is an elongate, tapering, angularly margined, black band 

 or stripe, reaching rather more than one third of the way towards 

 the spinners ; immediately following this are three black spots in a 

 transverse line, after which, to the spinners, is a series of 6-8 an- 

 gular lines or chevrons ; the angles of these are broken, so that 

 they form a double series of opposed, black, and some of them 

 slightly curved, short, but distinct dashes ; one pair of these dashes 



