and Systematic Airangement of Bntish Spiders. 249 



199. Epeira conica. 



Epeira conica, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. t. ii. p. 138 ; 



Latr. Gen. Crust, et Insect, torn. i. p. 109 ; Sund. Vet. Acad. 



Handl. 1832, p. 248 ; Hahn, Die Arachn. B. ii. p. 45. tab. 57. 



fig. 130. 

 Singa conica, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst. erstes Heft, p. 6 ; Die 



Arachn. B. xi. p. 145. tab. 392. fig. 943-945. 

 Titulus 4, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl. De Aran. p. 32. tab. 1. fig. 4. 



I have seen immature individuals of this remarkable spider 

 which were captured in Middlesex, and in 1852 I received from 

 Mr. Meade an adult male which was sent to him from that 

 county. Lister states that he has frequently found Epeira 

 conica in lofty and umbrageous woods in Cambridgeshire and 

 Yorkshire. 



200. Epeira tubulosa, 



Epeira tuhulosa, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. t. ii. p. 86. 

 Singa hamattty Koch, Die Arachn. B. iii. p. 42. tab. 88. fig. 197, 198 ; 

 Uebers. des Arachn. Syst. erstes Heft, p. 6. 



melanocephala, Koch, Die Arachn. B. iii. p. 44. tab. 88. fig. 199. 



Titulus 7, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl. De Aran. p. 40. tab. 1. fig. 7. 



According to Lister, Epeira tuhulosa is sometimes met with in 

 great abundance in moist situations ; it is one of the few native 

 species, however, which I have not yet succeeded in obtaining. 



Genus Tetragnatha, Latr. 

 201. Tetragnatha externa. 



Tetragnatha extensa, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. t. ii. p. 203 ; 



Latr. Gen. Crust, et Insect, tom. i. p. 101 ; Sund. Vet. Acad. 



Handl. 1832, p. 256 ; Hahn, Die Arachn. B. ii. p. 43. tab. 56, 



fig. 129 ; Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst. erstes Heft, p. 5. 



gibba, Koch, Uebers. des Arachn. Syst. erstes Heft, p. 5. 

 Titulus 3, Lister, Hist. Animal. Angl. De Aran. p. 30. tab. 1 . fig. 3. 



This is the only species belonging to the genus Tetragnatha 

 which has been found in Great Britain. It frequents damp 

 localities, constructing among bushes and plants in the vicinity 

 of brooks, ditches and pools a slight net having a circular aper- 

 ture at the centre. The specific name extensa has reference to 

 its habit of extending the first and second pairs of legs forwards 

 and the posterior pair backwards in a line with the body. 



In June the female attaches to some object near her snare, a 

 subglobose cocoon, about ^th of an inch in diameter, composed 

 of fine silk of a loose texture, which is either whitish with small 

 tufts of a dull green colour on its exterior surface, or else is of a 



