1896.] Carpenter. — Clonbrock Expedition, Spiders. 227 



Hahn. This handsome species was known as a British spider 

 only from the south of England^ until its recent discovery 

 in Inverness-shire"". It is of interest to be able now to record 

 it for one of the western counties of Ireland, its known range 

 in the British Isles being thus strangely discontinuous, though 

 it doubtless awaits discovery in intermediate localities. 



Coming lastly to the Lycosidce or wolf-spiders, it was interest- 

 ing to find several immature specimens of the 'gr^dX Dolomedes 

 fi7?ibriatus, Wick., which attracted so much attention on the 

 Galway expedition of last year^. The genus Lycosa was repre- 

 sented only by two common species — L. pulverulenta, CI., and 

 L. ruricola, DG. ; while there were five species of Pardosa. P. 

 amcntata, CI., P.pullata, CI., and P.palustris, ly., are probably 

 common species everywhere, while P. 7iigriceps, Thor., is 

 generally distributed and not scarce. The remaining species 

 represented by a single female taken by Halbert on Sheep- 

 pool Bog running close to a drain, proves to be P. herbigrada, 

 Bl., a very handsome addition to the Irish fauna. Since 

 determining this specimen I have found another female in a 

 collection made by Prof. D'Arcy Thompson at Roundstone, in 

 August, 1894. "I^his spider has a peculiar discontinuous range. 

 In Great Britain it has been found in Dorset*, Northumber- 

 land^, and the Scottish Highlands". On the continent it 

 occurs in Norway, Sweden, and Galicia^ According to 

 Simon^ it has not been found in France ; but it probably 

 inhabits at least the north-west of that country, as it has lately 

 been discovered in Guernsey'. 



This beautiful spider (see Plate 3) is remarkable among the 

 species of Paj'dosa on account of the extensive area of the 

 yellow markings on the cephalothorax, the dark lateral 

 bands being generally, as in the present specimen (fig. 2), 

 interrupted. Most species of the genus are predominantly 



* Carpenter and Kvans, Ann. Scoit. Nat. Hist., 1894, p. 233. 



2 O. P. Cambridge, op. cit., p. 301. 



3 Irish Nat. vol. iv., 1895, p. 255. 



4 O. P. Cambridge, 0^. cit. (p. 385.) 



5 O. P. Cambridge. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, 1875. 



• Carpenter and Evans, /. c. (p. 235). 



7 T. Thorell, " Remarks on Synonyms of European Spiders," Upsala, 

 1870-3, (p. 282). 



8 " Arachnides de France," Tome iii. (p. 323). 



' F. O, P. Cambridge " Trans. Guerns. Soc. Nat> Sci., 1894. 



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