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curved ; this process by its size and shape distinguishes the males of the two species at a 
glance. 
The female may he distinguished by the abdomen in the present species (when looked 
at in profile) having a higher elevation about the middle, the general curve of that of 
L. peltata being here of a somewhat humped nature ; the form of the genital aperture also 
differs a little : in L. peltata it is of a simple, transverse, oval form ; in the present its form is 
somewhat bluntly sub-triangular. 
Hab. — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, and Murree to Sind Valley, July 14th to August 
5th, 1873. 
48. — Linyphia albipttn ctata, sp. n. 
Adult female : length rather over 2 lines. 
This spider is nearly allied to Linyphia leprosa , Ohl., and L. minuta , El., to which it bears 
considerable resemblance both in size, form, and colours. The whole of the forepart is yellow- 
brown, the sternum and falces being the darkest : the upper part of the caput also, with 
the normal indentations, is rather darker than the rest of the cephalothorax ; the legs are 
distinctly annulated with dark brown, and furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines ; the 
palpi have a similar armature, but are not so distinctly annulated. 
The eyes are in the ordinary position and seated on tubercular black spots, but the ocular 
area is more prominent than usual, and has the appearance of a longish, oblong, tubercular 
platform ; those of the posterior row appear to be equally divided from each other, the inter- 
val being less than a diameter ; the fore-centrals are the smallest of the eight, and are sepa- 
rated by about half a diameter, each being divided from the fore-lateral eye on its side by rather 
less than the diameter of the latter ; those of each lateral pair are placed rather obliquely, 
but not quite contiguously. The height of the clypeus, which is very projecting, equals half 
that of the facial space ; the four central eyes form a rectangle Avliose Ion gitudinal is greater 
than its widest transverse diameter, and its posterior side longer than its anterior one. 
The falces are moderately long and strong, very slightly divergent, nearly perpendicular ; 
their profile is curved, and each has three tolerably strong, sharp teeth at the extremity on 
the inner side. 
The sternum has its surface slightly tuberculose. 
The abdomen is very convex above, and projects well over the base of the cephalothorax ; 
it is of a rather dark yellow-brown colour, marked with deeper brown, and thickly and minutely 
specked with white on the upper part and sides ; the only traceable pattern is a longitu- 
dinal dark-brown line along the middle of the fore part of the upper side, followed to the 
spinners by a series of transverse angular lines, formed by the more regular disposition 
°f some of the white spots ; probably a series of specimens would show transverse angular 
hrown lines, with perhaps an enlargement like a spot or blotch at each of their extremities ; 
°n the sides also there is a trace of a similar white horizontal curved line meeting the one 
°n the opposite side a little above the spinners ; and above it is a horizontal brown patch. These 
Markings arc all very similar to those of Linyphia leprosa, though less distinct. The gen- 
ial aperture in the two species, and the process connected with it, are, however, totally dis- 
similar ; in the present spider, instead of being exceedingly prominent, and rather complex, 
it is only slightly prominent and very simple in its structure. 
Hab — Murree, June 11th to July 14th, 1873. 
