LINYPHIA. 
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LlNYPHIA MONTANA. PI. XV, fig. 138. 
Linyphia montana, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 233, pi. 16, fig. 4. 
— — Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst., erstes Heft, p. 10. 
— — Koch, Die Arachn., Band xii, p. 113, tab. 422, figs. 1038, 1039. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 448. 
— triangularis, Latr., Gen. Crust, et Insect., tom. i, p. 100. 
— — Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1829, p. 215. 
Length of the female, 1th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, Ath, breadth, ~th; 
breadth of the abdomen, jth; length of an anterior leg, length of a leg of the third 
pair, ^ths. 
The eyes are seated on black spots; the four intermediate ones form a trapezoid whose 
anterior side is much the shortest, and those of each lateral pair are placed obliquely on a 
small tubercle, and are almost contiguous; the posterior eyes of the trapezoid are much the 
largest, and the anterior ones are the smallest of the eight. The cephalo-thorax is oval, 
convex, glossy, with a large indentation in the medial line; its colour is yellowish-brown, 
with a narrow, brownish-black band, bifid before, extending along the middle, and a brown 
one on each side, parallel to the lateral margins. The falces are powerful, conical, rather 
divergent at the extremity, armed with teeth on the inner surface, and inclined towards the 
sternum, which is heart-shaped, and provided with some long, thinly scattered, black hairs. 
The maxillae are strong, very convex underneath, and somewhat quadrate, having the exterior 
angle, at the extremity, curvilinear. The lip is semicircular and prominent at the apex. 
The falces and maxillae are of a reddish-brown colour, the former being the redder, and the 
sternum and lip are of a very dark-brown hue, approaching to black. The legs and palpi 
are long, slender, provided with hairs and fine, erect spines, and of a yellowish-brown 
colour, with the exception of the thighs, which have a tinge of green. Each tarsus is 
terminated by three claws, the two superior ones are curved and pectinated, and the inferior 
one is inflected near its base. The palpi have at their extremity a long, slightly curved claw, 
minutely dentated about a third of its length from the base. The abdomen is oviform, 
somewhat compressed, very convex above, projecting over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it 
is thinly covered with hairs, glossy, and has a broad, dentated, dark-brown band, obscurely 
spotted with white, extending along the middle of the upper part, the posterior extremity of 
which is the darkest and is crossed, near the spinners, by a whitish, semicircular line, whose 
convexity is directed forwards; on each side of the medial band there is an irregular, 
longitudinal, white band; the sides have a dark-brown tint, and are marked with two white 
lines; the anterior one is horizontal, the posterior one, which is nearly vertical, meeting its 
extremity, and forming with it a right angle nearly; the under part is of a very dark-brown 
hue; the sexual organs are prominent, and have a small, oval process connected with their 
posterior margin ; and the colour of the branchial opercula is dark-brown. 
