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Areoncus crassiceps West. 



CONNAUGHT. 



I took four females in July, 1920, on Yellow Island in Lough Ree, 

 the only previous records being from Ballysodare, Co. Sligo, Drumlane, 

 Co. Cavan, and near Kilrea in Co. Antrim. 



Diplocephalus Beckii Cambr. 

 Leinster. 



This species was first recorded as Irish in my Supplementary List of 

 Irish spiders from some specimens that Professor Carpenter had received 

 from Belfast from Mr. H. L. Orr. Since then Mr. Herbert took a single 

 female in Sligo and I have myself taken a single female on the Hill of 

 Howth and another in Co. Antrim, near Kilrea, on the banks of the river 

 Bann. Mr. H. B. Cott has also sent me a single male from the Curragh, 

 Co. Kildare. It is a very rare spider both in England and on the Con- 

 tinent. 



Diplocephalus picinus Bl. 

 Ulster. Munster. 



A single female taken on the shores of Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh, 

 in July, 1909, and another at Mount Congreve, Co, Waterford, in May, 

 1920, are the second and third records of this spider in Ireland, the first 

 having been taken at Fenagh, Co. Carlow, and recorded in my Supple- 

 mentary List {Proc. R. I. Academy, March, 1909). 



Lophomma subaequale West. 

 Munster. Connaught. 



Professor Carpenter in his " List oi Irish Spiders " records a single 

 male of this very rare species from Terenure, Co Dublin, in 1894. Since 

 that time I found two males on Clare Island, and a single female at Two 

 Mile Borris, Co Tipperary, and another at Fenagh, Co. Carlow, in 1909. 

 I have also lately received another female taken by Mr. H. B. Cott on 

 The Curragh in March, 1922. 



Oedothoraz apicatus Bl. 



Leinster. 



This spider has not yet occurred outside the province of Leinster. I 

 recorded a single male from Fenagh, Co. Carlow, in my Supplementary 

 List of Irish Spiders, 1909. Since then I have taken several more males 

 and females in the same locality, and also a female both at Howth and 

 Arklow, in 191 3. Mr. H. B. Cott has also sent me a pair lately from The 

 Curragh, Co. Kildare, taken in March, 1922. 



Centromerus expertus Cambr. 

 Munster. 



Mr. R. A. Phillips sent me a single female of this rare spider taken by 

 him at Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary in April, 192 1. This is only its second 

 occurrence in Ireland, a male having been found in Co. Armagh in 1892, 

 and recorded by Professor Carpenter in his List of the Spiders of Ireland. 



