96 The Irish Nahiralisi. [ April, 



Bl.), was taken at Mote Park lor the first time in Ireland. 

 Though an immature female, the specimen shows the character- 

 istic form and markings of the abdomen. Immature speci- 

 mens of the great y!o\i-s^i&^r, Dolomedes fifnbriattis, CI., occurred 

 both at Mote Park and at Mount Talbot ; it seems likely that 

 this spider ranges all over Connaught. In the same family 

 {LycosidcB) a very interesting addition to the Irish list is 

 afiforded by Pirata hygrophiluSy Thor., of which a male was 

 secured at Mote Park. I find a female of the same species 

 among Mr. Halbert's captures at Limerick in June, 1895. P. 

 piraticiis, CI., which is spread commonly over most of Ireland, 

 was taken at Mount Talbot. 



Of my own collection made at Clonbrock in September, the 

 most interesting spider was Pachyg7iatha Listeria Sund. Adults 

 of both sexes were numerous in the wood. I believe this to 

 be its first genuine record as an Irish species, for though in Mr. 

 Workman's list^ it is inserted ** on authority of Blackwall," 

 I can find no mention of an Irish habitat in Blackwall's 

 monograph. Both P. Clerckii, Sund., and P. Degeeriiy 

 Sund., are given b}' him as Irish ; and they are indeed widely 

 distributed over the country, the latter being one of our 

 commonest species. Now, however, we know that all three 

 British spiders of the genus extend their range into Ireland. 

 A few days after my return from Clonbrock, Mr. Halbert 

 handed me specimens of P. Listeri which he had taken in 

 the Parnell demesne at Avondale, Co. Wicklow. Another 

 addition to the Irish list which I secured at Clonbrock was 

 Lcptyphajites flavipes, BL, an adult male, a near ally of the 

 common L. tenuis, Bl., but evidently very much scarcer. I 

 was also fortunate in securing an adult male af Ero ftircata^ 

 Vill. {Theridion z'ariegatti?n,B\.). This beautiful species is as 

 yet unrecorded for Ireland, though I have received specimens 

 from Mr. J. N. Milne of Ivondonderry, while Mr. Halbert has 

 taken the female in Co. Dublin, 



* Entomologist^ vol. xiii., 1880, p. 128. 



