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SOME BRITISH SPIDERS TAKEN IN 1907. 



By Frank P. Smith. 



{Read November loth. 1907.) 



Plate 14. 



Judging from the experiences of workers in many branches 

 of entomology, the year 1907 does not appear to have been by 

 any means a prolific one. One might naturally assume, therefore, 

 that spiders would be correspondingly scarce, and from personal 

 experience I think we must regard the year as considerably below 

 the average. The study of the spiders, however, has made good 

 progress during this period, several workers having, at the 

 expense of a great deal of hard work, added considerably to our 

 knowledge of the group. In this connection must be specially 

 mentioned Mr. William Falconer, of Slaithwaite, for, although 

 the name of this gentleman has not been brought before the 

 public to any great extent in published papers, his assiduous 

 and conscientious collecting in the Huddersfield area has resulted 

 not only in the discovery of many rare and interesting spiders, 

 but has demonstrated the real identity of several obscure types 

 whose elimination from the list will be greatly appreciated by his 

 brother workers. 



My own outdoor work has, I fear, been very limited, and 

 impeded greatly by indifferent health. Three weeks at Hastings 

 and three days in the Isle of Wight is the sum -total outside 

 the London area. I am able, however, to add one species to the 

 British list and to record localities for several others which appear 

 to be exceedingly rare. 



Family DRASSIDAE. 

 Gnaphosa lapidosa (Walck.), 1802. 



1802. Aranea lapidosa, Walck., Faune Par. 



1804. ,, lapidicola, Latr., Hist. Nat. Crust, his. 



1805. Clubiona lapidicoleus, Walck., Tabl. Aran. 

 1833. ,, lapidaria, Hahn, Monog. Aran. 

 1861. Drassus lapidicoleus, Bl., Sp. G. B. I. 

 1879. „ lapidicoleus, Camb., Spid. Dorset. 





