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with them four prominent, contiguous processes directed obliquely downwards and backwards, 
the posterior one being the shortest. 
The male is much smaller than the female, but it closely resembles her in colour. The 
cubital and radial joints of its palpi are short, the latter being the larger; the digital joint is 
oval, with a small lobe on the outer side; it is convex and hairy externally, concave within, 
comprising the palpal organs, which are highly developed, prominent, complex in structure, 
with a small, crescent-shaped process near their base, on the outer side, whose superior limb 
is terminated by an acute point which is almost in contact with the extremity of the radial 
joint; these organs are of a red-brown colour. 
Specimens of this small species of Linypliia have been found in moss growing among 
heath in woods about Oakland, and at the roots of heath on Bingley Moor, in Yorkshire. Iwo 
adult males and an immature female, captured in the latter locality, were received from Mr. 
R. H. Meade in October, 1852. 
Linyphia insignis. PI. XVII, fig. 160. 
Linyphia insignis, Blackw., Linn. Trans., vol. xviii, p. 662. 
_ — Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. iv, p. 499. 
_ _ Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. ix, p. 18. 
Length of the female, | B ths of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, T ’ B th, breadth, ^th; 
breadth of the abdomen, T ’ 5 th; length of an anterior leg, ^ths; length of a leg of the thiid 
pair, *th. 
The cephalo-thorax is oval, convex, glossy, with slight furrows on the sides converging 
towards a large indentation in the medial line; its colour is yellowish-brown, the margins 
being the darkest. The eyes are seated on black spots; the four intermediate ones form a 
trapezoid whose anterior side is the shortest, and those of each lateral pair are placed obliquely 
on a small tubercle and are nearly contiguous; the posterior eyes of the trapezoid are rather 
the largest, and the anterior ones the smallest of the eight. The falces are powerful, conical, 
vertical, and armed with a few teeth on the inner surface; and the maxillse are straight, and 
somewhat quadrate. These organs resemble the cephalo-thorax in colour, hut are rather 
darker. The lip is semicircular and prominent at its apex; and the sternum is heart-shaped. 
These parts have a dark-brown tint, the lip being paler at the extremity. Ihe legs are 
long, slender, provided with hairs and fine, erect spines, and are of a pale yellowish-brown 
hue; the first pair is the longest, then the second, and the third pair is the shortest; 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 resemble the legs in colour. The 
abdomen is oviform, glossy, thinly clothed with hairs, convex above, projecting over the base 
of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a dull-yellowish colour, with a series of black, angular lines, 
whose vertices are directed forwards, extending along the middle of the upper part, and an 
irregular, longitudinal band of the same hue on each side; there is a black spot above the 
