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Immediatel}' after dinner the tables were cleared, and were as rapidly 

 covered with rock-specimens, insect-boxes, tubes, plant-presses, killing- 

 bottles, setting-boards, and the various weapons of the naturalist, and a 

 general exhibition was given of the specimens which had been collected 

 during the week, and of the modes employed for preserving and dis- 

 playing them. Dr. G. W. Chaster briefly called attention to the land 

 and fresh-water mollusca, and exhibited some of the characteristic forms ; 

 Mr. J. N. Halbert did the same wdth the insects, and Mr. Praeger with 

 the flowering plants ; and for a couple of hours the members, and a large 

 number of local friends who had come in, were engaged in examining the 

 spoils of the excursion. 



Wednesday, Jui.y 13th. — On their last morning members were not 

 idle. An early visit w^as paid to the convent of St. Clare, which was 

 inspected wnth much interest, the well-known lace industry attracting 

 particular attention. Then a small but perfect stone circle with a 

 cromleac in its centre, close to the town, was inspected, and tw^o large 

 erratics of Old Red Sandstone lying on the surface of the limestone 

 close by. 



The programme provided for the return of the members by the 1.50 

 train to Dublin, but nearly one-half of the party elected to spend a 

 longer time in Kerry, and the green Field Club Union tickets were in 

 evidence at Parknasilla, Waterville, Caragh Lake, and Killarney during 

 the following week. Some good work was done at Killarney by the 

 enail-hunters and others, and these finds are incorporated in the reports 

 •which follow. 



National Library, Dublin. 



II.— ZOOIyOGY 



ARACHNIDA. 



BY gkorge; h. carpenter, b.sc 



Though circumstances unfortunately prevented my presence at the 

 Kenmare Conference, my friends Messrs. Freeman and Halbert were 

 good enough to collect as many spiders as came in their way, receiving 

 valuable help from some other members of the party. After working 

 over the material, I must confess to some disappointment at finding no 

 species new to the Irish list, but the work done extends our knowledge 

 of the range of several species which had not hitherto been reported from 

 the south-west. In the succeeding notes " Upper Lake " means the 

 Upper Lake of Killarney. Where no locality is given the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Kenmare is to be understood. 



T>YST:>-E.^n:>JB,.—Segesiria senoculata, Kenmare, Upper Lake. Harpades 

 Hombergii. 



