SPIDERS COLLECTED IN NEIGHBOURHOOD OF AVIEMORE 227 



A LIST OF SPIDERS COLLECTED IN THE 

 NEIGHBOURHOOD OF AVIEMORE, INVER- 

 NESS-SHIRE. 



By GEORGE H. CARPENTER, B.Sc., and WILLIAM EVANS, F.R.S.E. 



PLATE VII. 



[INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY W. EVANS. In 1893 I had oc- 

 casion to spend the months of May and June at Aviemore 

 in Strathspey ; and being at the time much interested in 

 Spiders, they naturally received a considerable share of my 

 attention. Most of the specimens then collected, together 

 with a few which I obtained in the same neighbourhood while 

 staying at Kincraig in August 1889, have kindly been ex- 

 amined for me by Mr. Carpenter, and from his notes and my 

 own field and other memoranda the following list has been 

 drawn up by us. 



Of the locality it may safely be said that there are few 

 in Scotland more likely to possess a richer spider fauna. The 

 mere mention of the frie forests of Rothiemurchus, Glenmore, 

 and Abernethy, the profusion of luxuriant heather, juniper 

 bushes, etc., the banks and shingles of the Spey and its 

 tributaries, the surrounding mountains (the Cairngorms and the 

 Monadhliath range), will be sufficient to make this apparent. 



The number of species obtained by me was 109 a small 

 proportion, no doubt, of what we may expect to be recorded 

 when the district has received the attention it deserves. One 

 of the species now recorded namely, Cnephalocotes elegans 

 is new to Britain, and other five or six are believed to be 

 additions to the Scottish list. The collection has also sup- 

 plied the type specimen of the female of Trochosa biunguiculata 

 which the Rev. O. P. Cambridge recently described and 

 figured in this journal (see p. 23 of the present vol.) This 

 specimen, I ought to say, was kindly brought to me, along 

 with some other Lycosids, from Cairn toul by Mr. Alex. 

 Robertson, a member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club. 

 A number of the other species included in the list have only 

 been taken in Scotland on one or two previous occasions. 



