222 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



SOME NEW SCOTCH LOCALITIES FOR 

 ARACHNIDS. 



By GEO. H. CARPENTER, B.Sc. 



THROUGH the kindness of Messrs. W. Evans and W. Eagle 

 Clarke of Edinburgh, and Professor D'Arcy Thompson of 

 Dundee, I have lately had the opportunity of examining a 

 number of spiders from Scottish localities. Most of Mr. 

 Evans' specimens were collected around Edinburgh and in 

 the Grampians near Aviemore and Kingussie. Special lists 

 of the species from these districts are now in preparation. 

 The present list of spiders and harvestmen from other 

 localities is put forward as a modest contribution to our 

 knowledge of the distribution of these animals in Scotland. 

 We have already Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge's paper " On the 

 Spiders of Scotland" (" Entom.," x., 1877), Professor Trail's 

 " List of Spiders of Dee " (" Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Aberd," 

 1878) and Mr. Young's lists from the Glasgow district (" Proc. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg.," vols. iii. and iv.), besides various 

 Scottish records in Mr. Pickard-Cambridge's "Spiders of 

 Dorset." The localities now indicated have not, I believe, 

 been searched for spiders before ; and I accordingly enumerate 

 all the species found, including those common forms which 

 may be presumed to range over the whole of the British Isles. 

 Some of Professor Thompson's specimens are from Dundee, 

 and the opposite coast of Fife ; but the majority were taken 

 at Buckie in Banffshire. Mr. Evans's collections were made 

 in 1889 at Tushielaw in the Ettrick district, and near 

 Callander in Perthshire. Mr. Evans has also placed in my 

 hands some specimens collected for him by Mr. C. Campbell 

 at Morven, Argyleshire. Two of the harvestmen from this 

 locality Oligolophus ephippiatns, Koch, and O. palpinalis, 

 Herbst. are now recorded for the first time as Scottish. The 

 former species is, according to Mr. Pickard-Cambridge, widely 

 distributed in England ; but the latter has hitherto been found 

 only in Dorset and North Wales. Mr. Evans has also sent 

 me a few specimens taken by Mr. A. Robertson at heights of 

 over 3000 feet on Ben Alder and Creag Meaghaidh in the 



