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LiNYPHinm 
Linyphia tenella. PI. XVII, fig. 164. 
Linyphia tenella, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. xiii, 
p. 177. 
— — Blackw., Ibid., vol. xiv, p. 31. 
Length of the female, -nth of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, Ath, breadth, g^nd, 
breadth of the abdomen, Ath; length of an anterior leg, sth; length of a leg of the third 
pair,_ ith. 
The cephalo-thorax is oval, convex, glossy, with an indentation in the medial line ; the 
falces are conical, vertical, and armed with minute teeth on the inner surface; the maxillae 
are straight, with the exterior angle, at the extremity, curvilinear. These parts have a brown 
tint, with the exception of the lateral margins of the cephalo-thorax, which are black. The 
lip is semicircular and prominent at the apex ; and the sternum is convex, glossy, and heart- 
shaped. Both these parts have a very dark-brown hue. The eyes are seated on black spots; 
those of each lateral pair are placed obliquely on a small tubercle, and are contiguous, and 
the anterior eyes of the four intermediate ones forming the trapezoid are seated on a slight 
protuberance, and are the smallest and darkest of the eight. The legs are long, slender, 
provided with hairs and fine spines, and have a light, yellowish-red tint; the first pair is the 
longest, the second pair slightly surpasses the fourth, 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, pointed at the spinners, sparingly supplied with short hairs, glossy, 
convex above, and projects over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is of a dull, olive-green 
hue, the under part being the darkest, and along the middle of the upper part there extends 
a very obscure series of angular lines of a deeper shade, having their vertices directed 
forwards; the sexual organs present two parallel, convex, glossy prominences of a red-brown 
colour. 
An adult female of this Linyphia was received from Mr. R. H. Meade in September, and 
an immature one from the Rev. Hamlet Clark in October, 1853. 
Linyphia circumspecta. PL XVII, fig. 165. 
Linyphia circumspecta, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. 
xiii, p. 177. 
— — Blackw., Ibid., vol. xiv, p. 32. 
Length of the male, Ath of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, Ath, breadth, ssth 
breadth of the abdomen, 3 ' 5 th; length of an anterior leg, T 3 B ths; length of a leg of the thir 
pair, 3 th. 
