62 The I risk Naturalist. Jure, 



SOME NEW AND RARE IRISH SPIDERS. 



BY DENIS R. PACK-BERESFORD, M.R.I. A. 



{Concluded from page 54). 



Oedothorax aplcatus Bl. Gongylidium Bl. (D.R.P.B. Sup. List Spid. I.) ; 

 Neriene apicata Bl. (Spid. G.B.I.) — This spider, which has up to now only 

 been found in Leinster, in the Counties of Dublin, Kildare, Carlow and 

 Wicklow, has been taken by Mr. R. A. Phillips in Co. Clare. He got a 

 single female at Cloonacoose, Kilfenora, in June, 1923. 



Oedothorax gibbosus Bl. Gongylidium gibbosum Bl. (D.R.P.B. Sup. 

 List Spid. I.) ; Neriene gibbosa Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). — This is perhaps the 

 rarest species of this genus, and is extremely difficult to identify with 

 certainty in the female sex, though the males are very distinct. I have 

 taken both sexes at Fenagh. Co. Carlow, and a single female was sent me 

 years ago from Lough Gullion, Co. Armagh, which was identified as this 

 species by the late Mr. Cambridge. 



Now I have received a female, taken by Mr. R. A. Phillips near Galway 

 in June, 1923, which Dr. Jackson believes to be this species. 



Gongylidiellum vivum Camb. Neriene viva (Camb. Spid, Dorset). — 

 I have received from Mr, R, A. Phillips two females of this rare species, 

 one from near Ennis, Co, Clare, taken in July, 192 1, and one taken by 

 Lough Derg near Dromineer, Co. Tipperary, in May, 1922. I have recorded 

 it previously from Recess, Co, Galway, Clare Island and Mallaranny, Co. 

 Mayo, and I found a specimen in the Museum from Ardara, Co. Donegal. 

 I have also received a single female from my brother, Mr. R. J. Pack 

 Beresford, taken at Athlone, Co. Westmeath, in 1922 ; and I took another 

 on the banks of the river Bann at Portna, near Kilrea, in Co. Antrim. Mr. 

 J. A. S. Stendall also records a pair from the Castlereagh Hills, Co. Down 

 (Ulster Spiders, 191 5). 



Erigone arctica White. — This spider has now been taken from four 

 counties on the western coast of Ireland : Co. Kerry (Valencia Is.), Co. 

 Galway (Roundstone, Rinvyle), Co. Mayo (Clare Is., Mallaranny) and Co. 

 Donegal (Rough Island). 



Micryphantes rurestris Koch. — A common enough spider in many 

 places, but has so far been only found in the eastern counties. I, however, 

 took it at Recess, Co. Galway, and Mr. R. A. Phillips has sent me some 

 specimens taken near Gort in June, 1923. 



Agyneta conigera Camb. Microneta conigera Camb. (D. R. P. B. 

 Sup. List Spid. I.). — I have only seen two female specimens of this spider 

 before, which I took in Co, Carlow. Mr. R. A. Phillips has now sent me 

 a single female from Woodford, Co, Galway, which he took in June, 1923. 

 Mr. J. A. S. Stendall (Ulster Spiders, 191 5) records it from the Cregagh 

 Hills, Co. Down, and Monks Hill near Belfast, Co. Antrim. 



