130 Mr. Blackwall's Catalogue of Spiders. 



jured by captivity. At that time I was not aware that I had been anticipated 

 by Mr. Teinpleton, whose genus Oonops, founded on the organic peculiarities 

 of this species, has the claim of priority. 



Oonops pulcher is found in crevices in rocks and stone walls, and among 

 liverworts growing on trees in Lancashire, Denbighshire and Caernarvonshire, 

 being abundant in the last two counties. In May the female fabricates near 

 her retreat several contiguous, subglobose cocoons of white silk, of a delicate 

 but compact texture, measuring about i^th of an inch in diameter, in each of 

 which she usually deposits two spherical pink eggs, not agglutinated together. 



