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smaller ones on the inner surface. The maxillae are somewhat inclined towards the lip. The 
legs have a yellowish-red hue, the haunches and thighs being the reddest. The radial joint 
of the palpi is larger than the cubital, is somewhat produced at its extremity, in front, 
and has some long, slender bristles on the outer side; the digital joint is of an elongated oval 
form, convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are. 
highly developed, complicated in structure, with a pointed, corneous process directed 
obliquely downwards and outwards, and a spiral spine, enveloped in membrane, at their 
extremity; their colour is dark reddish-brown. The abdomen is nearly cylindrical, projecting 
a little over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is glossy, and of a dark-brown hue, with an 
irregular, white spot on each side of its anterior extremity. 
Since the publication of the description of this spider, under the specific name of 
sylvatica, in the eighteenth volume of the ‘ Transactions of the Linnean Society, the 
suspicion of its identity with the Linyphia pratensis of M. Wider, there expressed, has been 
converted into absolute certainty by consulting M. Reuss’s memoir entitled “ Arachniden/ 
contained in the first volume of the ‘ Museum Senckenbergianumconsequently, the appel¬ 
lation sylvatica must rank as a synonym. It will be seen that this opinion has been adopted 
by M. Walckenaer, on referring to his ‘ Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt./ tom. iv, p. 499. 
This species is common in England and Wales, and in the spring of 1849 an immature 
male, which had to undergo its final change of integument, w r as received from Mr. J. 
Hardy, who captured it in Berwickshire. Its snare is usually constructed among rank 
herbage growing in and near woods, and it pairs in May and June. 
Linyphia fuliginea. PI. XV, fig. 142. 
Linyphia fuliginea , Blackw., Loud, and Edinb. Phil. Mag., third series, vol. iii, 
p. 349. 
— — Blackw., Research, in Zool., p. 401. 
_ — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. viii, 
p. 450. 
Length of the female, 5 th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, n;th, breadth, 55 th; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of an anterior leg, ^ths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, 5th. 
This spider, though very similar to Linyplna pratensis, is quite distinct from that species. 
Its cephalo-thorax is compressed before, rounded on the sides, convex, glossy, with a large 
indentation in the medial line; the falces are long, powerful, conical, armed with teeth on the 
inner surface, and inclined towards the sternum, which is heart-shaped; the maxillae are 
strong, straight, convex underneath, with the exterior angle, at the extremity, curvilinear; the 
lip is semicircular and prominent at the apex. These parts are of a very dark-brown colour, 
approaching to black, the cephalo-thorax being the palest. The four intermediate eyes form 
a trapezoid whose anterior side is the shortest; the posterior eyes of the trapezoid are the 
