So ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Having received Bolyphantes cxpunctus, Cb., from the 

 neighbourhood of Forres in 1908, I spent four days in that 

 district in August 1910, for the express purpose of extend- 

 ing my acquaintance with that Spider. Though August is 

 comparatively a dead month for Spiders, the number of 

 species taken was unexpectedly large. With the assistance 

 of Mr. J. VV. H. Harrison of Middlesborough, I collected in 

 that brief time the species enumerated below. 



Of these the most notable capture was a new Lycosa 

 taken by Mr. Harrison in the pine woods of Altyre. This 

 I am describing in the forthcoming Trans, of the " North- 

 umberland and Durham Nat. Hist. Soc.," under the name 

 of Lycosa harrisonii. Next in importance was CnepJialocotes 

 ainbiguus, Cb., which was plentiful on the mud-flats on 

 the southern shore of Findhorn Bay. Of this the only 

 previously known example was the type male from the 

 Firth of Clyde j 1 the female was therefore new. I have 

 handed it over to Mr. Pickard Cambridge, who will de- 

 scribe it in a forthcoming paper. Agyneta mystica, Cb., 

 until the present year (1910) was represented only by the 

 type female from Balmoral. In the spring I was fortunate 

 enough to take both sexes in Allendale, Northumberland. 

 The present, therefore, is the third record, and the second 

 for Scotland. CnepJialocotes incurvatus, Cb., is in much the 

 same position. For many years the type male from near 

 Aberdeen remained unique. Two years ago I took two 

 more examples of the same sex, on the Northumbrian 

 coast, but in July 1910, a female was sent to me from the 

 same locality which I take to be the missing female of that 

 species. This is the spider which turned up at the Findhorn 

 sandhills and is recorded below as Cnephalocotes incwvatns, Cb. 



Another interesting find was Lycosa postmna, Cb. Hither- 

 to the type female from Balmoral was unique. It was in 

 bad condition and was recorded by Mr. Pickard Cambridge 

 as a Trochosa. It is, however, certainly a Lycosa closely 

 allied to L. anientata, Sund. Mr. Pickard Cambridge, to 

 whom I have sent the example taken on the Culbin Sands, 

 will publish presently a supplementary description. 



1 [It was taken by me in Arran not Bute as stated by the describer in 

 April 1895. W.E.] 



