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tube of spiders collected in the neighbourhood of Bexhill and 

 labelled " under stones," and I was by no means certain as to 

 the exact locality in which they were taken. Turning stones is 

 not, as a rule, a profitable method of searching for Tarentulae, 

 they being more frequently captured when running in bright 

 sunshine; and working on these lines, I visited at the hottest 

 part of the day all the likely spots where I had collected the 

 year before. After a week's failure I found on a small waste of 

 dried-up bracken a number of spiders which microscopical ex- 

 amination afterwards showed to be T. nemoralis. Both sexes 

 occurred in the adult state and were fairly plentiful, but re- 

 stricted to a very small area. The spider is an extremely 

 difficult one to capture, as it runs and jumps with great rapidity. 

 It might be easily mistaken, when upon the ground, for a very 

 small specimen of the common T. carinata. In alcohol, how- 

 ever, the reddish markings upon the abdomen impart quite a 

 characteristic appearance. 



Family ABGIOPIDAE 

 Aranea cucurbitina typica Linn., 1758. 



17.~>7. A ramus cucurbitinus, Oik., Sv. Spindl. (pre-Zinnean). 



1758. Aranea cucurbitina, Linn., Syst. Nat. 



1763. ,, frischii, Scop., Eat. Cam. 



1767. ,, octo- punctata, Linn., Syst. Nat. 



1775. ,, senoculata, Fabr., Syst. Ent. 



1778. ,, viridis-punctata, De Geer, Mem. 



1864. Epeira cucurbitina, Bl., Spid. G. B. I. 



1881. ,, ,, Camb., Spid. Dorset. 



Aranea cucurbitina opisthographa, Kulcz., 1905. 



1905. Araneus cucurbitinus opisthographus, Kulcz., Bull. Acad. 

 Cracovie. 



Several years ago, whilst preparing a plate of the palpi of the 

 various species of Aranea, I took a spicier from a tube in my 

 cabinet labelled Aranea cucurbitina, and, having made a rough 

 sketch of a palpus, threw the specimen away, it having been 

 somewhat badly mutilated during examination. Shortly after- 



