LINYPHIA. 
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Specimens of this interesting Linyphia have been procured in Lancashire and Denbigh¬ 
shire ; Mr. R. H. Meade has taken it in Yorkshire, and Mr. J. Hardy in Berwickshire. The 
male has the palpal organs fully developed in autumn, at which season both sexes are 
plentiful in the plantations about Crumpsall Hall, near Manchester, constructing snares of 
moderate extent among coarse grass beneath the trees. Like other species of the genus, they 
are usually seen on the under side of the horizontal sheet of web in an inverted position. 
Linyphia longidens. PL XVI, fig. 150. 
Linyphia longidens, Wider, Museum Senckenb., Band i, p. 270, taf. 18, fig. 5. 
— — Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 264. 
— — Blackvv., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. ix, p. 17. 
— tardipes, Blackw., Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag., third series, vol. viii, p. 488. 
Length of the female, gth of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, J.th, breadth, T ’ 5 th ; 
breadth of the abdomen, T ’ 2 th; length of an anterior leg, ^ths; length of a leg of the third 
pair, gth. 
The eyes are seated on black spots; the four intermediate ones form a square nearly, 
and the two anterior ones are the largest of the eight; those of each lateral pair are placed 
obliquely on a small tubercle and are contiguous. The cephalo-thorax is oval, convex, 
glossy, depressed and somewhat rounded before, with an indentation in the medial line; it is 
of a reddish-brown colour, with a broad, brownish-black band extending along each side. 
The falces are powerful, conical, divergent at the extremity, armed with a long fang, slightly 
curved at its point, and with two rows of teeth on the inner surface, those of the anterior row 
being remarkably long and fine ; they are inclined towards the sternum, which is heart-shaped 
and finely pointed at its posterior extremity; the maxillae are strong, straight, and somewhat 
quadrate, and the lip is semicircular and prominent at the apex. These parts have a reddish- 
brown tint, the sternum and lip being rather the darkest. The legs are moderately robust, 
provided with hairs and a few erect spines, and are of a reddish-brown colour, with obscure, 
brownish-black annuli; the first pair is the longest, the second and fourth pairs are nearlv 
equal in length, and the third pair is the shortest; each tarsus is terminated by three claws; 
the two superior ones are curved, and the inferior one is inflected near its base. The palpi, 
which are of a reddish-brown hue, and are furnished with spines, have a slightly curved, 
slender claw at their extremity. The abdomen is oviform, rather broader at the posterior 
than at the anterior extremity, convex above, projecting over the base of the cephalo-thorax; 
it is thinly clothed with hairs, glossy, and of a reddish-brown colour on the upper part, with 
a few minute, whitish spots interspersed, and a series of large, brownish-black blotches 
extending along each side of the medial line; these blotches unite as they approach the 
spinners, and form transverse, curved bars; the sides are of a brownish-black hue minutely 
freckled with reddish-brown; the under part has a dark-brown, or brownish-black tint; and 
