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teeth on the inner surface, and slightly inclined towards the sternum, which is broad and 
heart-shaped; the maxillae are robust, straight, and have the exterior angle, at the extremity, 
curvilinear; the lip is semicircular and prominent at the apex. These parts are of a dark- 
brown colour, the falces and lip being the darkest. The eyes are seated on black spots; the 
four intermediate ones form a trapezoid whose anterior side is the shortest, and the two 
anterior eyes of the trapezoid are the smallest of the eight. The legs are slender, provided 
with hairs and erect spines, and of a yellowish-brown colour tinged with 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 are of a yellowish-brown hue, and have a 
slightly curved claw at their extremity. The abdomen is oviform, thinly clothed with hairs, 
glossy, very convex above, projecting over the base of the cephalo-thorax; a broad, dentated, 
brown band, which is darkest at its posterior extremity, extends along the middle of the 
upper part, nearly to the spinners, and on each side of this band there is an irregular white 
one; these white bands unite immediately above the spinners, and a short, brown streak is 
directed upwards from each side of the anus ; the sides are of a brown colour obscurely 
mottled with yellowish spots, and are marked with two yellowish lines on the lower part, the 
anterior one being horizontal, and the posterior one nearly vertical ; the under part is of a 
brown hue, a large space in the middle having a tinge of yellow; the sexual organs, which 
are of a very dark-brown colour, approaching to black, have a minute process in connexion 
with their inferior margin,- and the branchial opercula have a brown tint. 
The male is smaller and slenderer than the female, but resembles her in the design 
formed by the colours of its abdomen. Its cephalo-thorax, falces, maxillae, lip, and sternum, 
have a tinge of red, and its legs are without the green tint perceptible on those of the other 
sex. The radial joint of the palpi is much stronger than the cubital, a long, slender bristle 
projecting from each, near its extremity, in front; the digital joint is oval, of a very dark- 
brown hue, convex and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which 
are prominent, highly developed, complicated in structure, with a corneous, pointed spine, 
directed from the inner side obliquely downwards, and a delicate, prominent membrane at 
the extremity; their colour is very dark reddish-brown. 
In the months of May and June this spider spins a web of moderate extent among 
bushes in w r oods and coppices in North Wales and Lancashire, where it is not uncommon. 
An immature female of this species, taken in Berwickshire, was received from Mr. J. Hardy 
in December, 1848, who has since captured adult specimens of both sexes in the same 
county. 
Linyphia minuta. PI. XV, fig. 144. 
Linyphia minuta, Blackw., Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag., third series, vol. iii, p. 191. 
— — Blackw., Research, in Zool., p. 384. 
— — Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. ix, 
p. 15. 
— domestica, Wider, Museum Senckenb., Band i, p. 265, taf. 18, fig. 1. 
— — Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 255. 
