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274 LINYPHIID/E. 
breadth of the abdomen, 5 ’ 5 th; length of a posterior leg, |th; length of a leg of the third 
pair, jth. 
The eyes are seated on black spots, the two anterior ones of the four forming the trape¬ 
zoid, which are near to each other, being the smallest and darkest of the eight. The cephalo- 
thorax is oval, convex, glossy, with slight furrows on the sides, which converge towards an 
indentation in the medial line; the falces are powerful, conical, vertical, and armed with a few 
teeth on the inner surface; the maxilla; are enlarged at the extremity, and inclined towards 
the lip, which is semicircular and prominent at the apex; the sternum is broad, heart-shaped, 
convex, and glossy; the legs, which are moderately long, are provided with hairs and a few fine 
spines; the fourth pair is slightly longer than the first, which surpasses 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. These parts are of a 
pale, yellow-brown colour, the falces, maxillae, and lip having a faint tinge of red. The palpi 
resemble the legs in colour; the cubital and radial joints are short, the latter, which is the 
stronger, being somewhat produced at its extremity, in front; the digital joint is oval, with a 
small, conical process at its base, and a lobe near the middle of its outer side, it is convex 
and hairy externally, concave within, comprising the palpal organs, which are highly deve¬ 
loped, complicated in structure, with a prominent, curved, scalelike process at the base, on 
the outer side, and are of a brownish-red colour. The abdomen is oviform, convex above, 
projecting over the base of the cephalo-thorax; it is thinly clothed with hairs, glossy, and of a 
dark, yellowish-brown colour, the branchial opercula and spinners being much the palest. 
This spider, which was found on Ingleborough, a mountain in Yorkshire, in September, 
1855, was received from Mr. R. H. Meade. 
Nekiene longipalpis. PL XIX, fig. 188. 
Neri'ene longipalpis, Blackw., Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist., second series, vol. i.v, 
p. 270. 
Linyphia — Sund., Yet. Acad. Handl., 1829, p. 212. 
— — Sund., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1832, p. 259. 
Erigone atra, Blackw., Lond. and Edinb. Phil. Mag., third series, vol. iii, p. 195, 
— — Blackw., Research, in Zook, p. 324. 
— dentipalpis, Koch, Die Arachn., Band viii, p. 90, tab. 2/8, figs. 659, 660. 
Argus longimanus, Walck., Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt., tom. ii, p. 346. 
Length of the female, §th of an inch; length of the cephalo-thorax, 55 th, breadth, 54 th ; 
breadth of the abdomen, ^th; length of a posterior leg, |th; length of a leg of the third 
pair, gth. 
The legs have a reddish-brown hue; the posterior pair is the longest, then the anterior 
pair, and the third pair is the shortest; each tarsus is terminated by three clav ; s; the two 
