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and also a few small ones, were found on bog-myrtle and heather 

 near Aberfoyle. 



EPEIRA UMBRATICA (Clk.} Two ad. $ s under bark on dead 

 mountain ash at Duchray, near Aberfoyle, 8th May 1896. 



XYSTICUS CRISTATUS (Clk.} Common, and at all stages, in every 

 locality examined. 



XYSTICUS BIFASCIATUS (C. L. J.} On i3th September 1897 two 

 examples an ad. 5 an d a $ not quite mature of this large 

 and uncommon " crab " spider were beaten off bog-myrtle near 

 Aberfoyle. 



OXYPTILA TRUX (BL} An ad. c? near Callander, 23rd April 1892 ; 

 and a few immature specimens at Aberfoyle in September 1897. 



OXYPTILA ATOMARIA (Panz.} An imm. <j>, Aberfoyle, September. 



PHILODROMUS AUREOLUS (Clk.} Common on whin and juniper 

 bushes; adults at Aberfoyle in June 1897. 



TIBELLUS OBLONGUS (Wlk.} Banks of Loch Chon, 2 7th April 

 1896, $ not quite adult; Aberfoyle, September 1897, several 

 immature. 



LYCOSID^:. 



*OCYALE MIRABILIS ( Clk. ) = Dolomedes mirabilis, Bl. "Spid. Gt. 

 Brit and Irel." Of this handsome species a few ad. <$s. 

 and some quite small specimens were captives round about 

 Aberfoyle in the end of April and the beginning of May 1896 ; 

 in 1897 an ad. c? was got at Aberfoyle on i6th May, and a half- 

 grown in September. Mr. Cambridge met with it at the 

 foot of Ben A'an in 1861. 



PIRATA PIRATICUS (Clk.} Aberfoyle, April 1896, a number of small 

 and half-grown ones ; June 1897, a few adults ; i2th September, 

 a 9 with a score of newly hatched young clinging to her body. 



*TROCHOSA LEOPARDUS (Sund.}=Lycosa cambrica, Bl. "Spid. Gt. 

 Brit, and Irel." On i5th April 1896 a <$ , not quite mature, 

 was found under a stone in a marshy spot at the Pass of 

 Aberfoyle. 



TROCHOSA RURICOLA (De G.) An ad. $ under a stone in grass field 

 east of Aberfoyle, 2ist April; and another among shingle by 

 the Duchray Water, 4th May 1896. 



TROCHOSA TERRICOLA, Thor. Callander, May, several imm. ; 

 Aberfoyle, April, two ad. c?s; September, a few adults of both 

 sexes. 



