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lateral pair are placed obliquely on a small tubercle, and are contiguous; the two posterior 
eyes of the trapezoid are the largest of the eight, and the two anterior ones, which are seated 
on a slight protuberance, are the smallest and darkest. The legs are long, slender, provided 
with hairs and a few spines, and of a yellowish-brown colour, the thighs having a tinge of 
green; each tarsus is terminated by three claws; the two superior ones are curved and 
slightly pectinated, and the inferior one is inflected near its base. The palpi resemble the 
legs in colour, and have a slightly curved claw at their extremity. The abdomen is oviform, 
moderately convex above, thinly clothed with hairs, and projects a little over the base of the 
cephalo-thorax; the posterior is broader than the anterior part and curves abruptly to the 
spinners; along the middle of the upper part there extends a broad, black, slightly festooned 
band, which comprises, in its anterior part, a row of yellowish-white spots on each side of 
the medial line; this band is bounded laterally by an irregular one of a yellowish-white tint, 
from which two or three streaks of the same hue pass downwards on the sides of the posterior 
part, and a slightly curved, yellowish-white streak occurs on each side, near its anterior 
extremity; the black medial band is almost intersected near the summit of the posterior 
declivity by two transverse, oblong, yellowish-white spots which nearly meet, and between 
them and the spinners there are two parallel spots of the same hue; the under part is black, 
with a longitudinal row of yellowish-white spots on each side; the superior margin of the 
sexual organs, which are very prominent, is curvilinear, and a small, obtuse process, con¬ 
nected with their inferior margin, is directed backwards; the colour of the branchial opercula 
is pale yellowish-brown. 
The male is slenderer, darker coloured, and less distinctly marked than the female; its 
legs have a yellowish-brown hue, without any tinge of green, and the digital joint of its palpi, 
and the palpal organs, which are highly developed and complicated in structure, are of a 
brownish-black colour. 
Linyphia triangularis occurs in the south-eastern counties of England, but does not 
appear to have been met with in the northern counties, nor in Wales. 
’ Linyphia marginata. PI. XV, fig. 140. 
Linyphia marginata, Blackw., Loud, and Edinb. Phil. Mag., third series, vo!. Ill, 
p. 346. 
— — Blacltw., Research, in Zook, p. 394. 
— ■— Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 449. 
— montana, Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1829, p. 217. 
— resupina, Wider, Museum Senckenb., Band i, p. 252, taf. 17, fig. 4. 
— — Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 242. 
— — Koch, Die Araclin., Band xii, p. 109, tab. 421, figs. 1035, 1036. 
Titulus 19, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl. De Aran., p. 64, tab. 1, fig. 19. 
Length of the female, 1th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, T ' B th, breadth, T ' 3 th; 
