8578 



Arachnida. 



required the last moult to complete their development, the 

 structure of the palpal organs^ could not be discerned. 

 Abdomen oblong-oval, very convex above throughout, and glossy. 

 Upper side dull yellow-brown, tinged with red. Under side 

 dark red-brown. These portions are separated from each other 

 by a narrow horizontal band of \t4iite, which runs completely 

 round the abdomen, though commonly interrupted just above 

 the spinners. On the upper side two longitudinal rows of red- 

 brown blotches or spots are visible in most specimens, and be- 

 tween these rows many specimens have a narrow tapering lon- 

 gitudinal band of the same colour : these spots vary much in 

 appearance and size, and in some specimens they run together, 

 and form a kind of broad, dentated, red-brown band, occupying 

 nearly the whole of the upper side of the abdomen : in most 

 specimens the blotches nearest the spinners run together into 

 an irregular patch. The white band, too, presents considerable 

 variety in different specimens, in some being only a white line, 

 in others much broader, but interrupted. Some specimens have 

 the sides and spaces between the rows of red-brown spots more 

 or less suffused or mottled with white ; in some the red-brown 

 spots are more or less nearly obsolete. The female resembles 

 the male, but is rather larger. 



I captured specimens of this species at Hursley, near Winchester, 

 in August, 186 J, and have since found it numerous at Bloxworth, 

 Dorset. It spins an irregular web among the leaves and stems of low- 

 growing plants in woods. I have not yet met with it quite adult, 

 most of those met with having another moult to undergo before 

 becoming so. 



This species may readily be distinguished from any other known 

 I native species by its reddish yellow hue, as well as by the white band 

 which separates the upper and under sides of the abdomen. It is 

 evidently allied to, but I think quite distinct from, the Linyphia cincta 

 of Walckenaer. In the general character of its markings it bears 

 some resemblance to females of L. fuliginea, but its colours differ 

 totally. 



Linyphia setose. 



Male, adult. Length 1-tenth of an inch. Length of cephalothorax 

 1-twentieth. Relative length of legs, 1, 2, 4, 3. 



Cephalothorax broad, raised and prominent at the eyes, and with a 

 longitudinal indentation on the hinder part. Colour brownish 



