222 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



SOME NEW SCOTCH LOCALITIES FOR 



ARACHNIDS. 



By Geo. H. Carpenter, B.Sc. 



THROUGH the kindness of Messrs. W. Evans and W. Eagle 



Clarke of Edinburgh, and Professor D'Arcy Thompson of 



Dundee, I have lately had the opportunity of examining a 



number of spiders from Scottish localities. Most of Mr. 



Evans' specimens were collected around Edinburgh and in 



the Grampians near Aviemore and Kingussie. Special lists 



of the species from these districts are now in preparation. 



The present list of spiders and harvestmen from other 



localities is put forward as a modest contribution to our 



knowledge of the distribution of these animals in Scotland. 



We have already Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge's paper " On the 



Spiders of Scotland" (" Entom.," x., 1877), Professor Trail's 



" List of Spiders of Dee " (" Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Aberd.," 



1878) and Mr. Young's lists from the Glasgow district (" Proc. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg.," vols. iii. and iv.), besides various 



Scottish records in Mr. Pickard-Cambridge's "Spiders of 



Dorset." The localities now indicated have not, I believe, 



been searched for spiders before ; and I accordingly enumerate 



all the species found, including those common forms which 



may be presumed to range over the whole of the British Isles. 



Some of Professor Thompson's specimens are from Dundee, 



and the opposite coast of Fife ; but the majority were taken 



at Buckie in Banffshire. Mr. Evans's collections were made 



in 1889 at Tushielaw in the Ettrick district, and near 



Callander in Perthshire. Mr. Evans has also placed in my 



hands some specimens collected for him by Mr. C. Campbell 



at Morven, Argyleshire. Two of the harvestmen from this 



locality — OligolopJius epliippiatus, Koch, and O. palpijialis, 



Herbst. — are now recorded for the first time as Scottish. The 



former species is, according to Mr. Pickard-Cambridge, widely 



distributed in England ; but the latter has hitherto been found 



only in Dorset and North Wales. Mr. Evans has also sent 



me a few specimens taken by Mr. A. Robertson at heights of 



over 3000 feet on Ben Alder and Creag Meaghaidh in the 



