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district of the country, together with reports of the laying, 

 hatching, and health of the birds, throughout the whole of 

 each year within the period covered by the inquiry. Enough 

 has, however, been said to show that the Committee and the 

 scientific staff are most heartily to be congratulated on the 

 results of their investigations, as well as on the splendid 

 volumes in which their Report is contained. 



A NEW SPIDER {LEPTYPHANTES 

 MORA TVS, N. SP.) 



By the Rev. J. E. Hull, M.A. 



Among the Spiders collected by me at Forres in August 

 1910, and recorded in the Annals of April 191 1, was a 

 Leptyphantes unknown to me. It was represented by a single 

 female taken among heather and pine needles in the Altyre 

 woods. This specimen escaped me when the original list 

 was compiled, having been misplaced among a large number 

 of Bolyphantes expunctus Cb., a species which it very closely 

 resembles in outward appearance. I have now recovered it, 

 and find it quite distinct from all our British species of 

 LeptypJiantes ; nor does it seem to have been met with 

 abroad. Of its congeners, it most nearly resembles L. 

 cristatus Menge and the continental L. niughi Fick., but 

 is rather smaller than either of them. I append a 

 description. 



Leptyphantes moratus, n. sp. 



Adult female: length, 2-6 mm. (cephalothorax i-o mm., 

 abdomen i-8 mm.). 



Cephalothorax yellow-brown, rather dusky, with a dark 

 margin. Upper eyes pretty large, equal, in- a straight line, 

 of which the middle interval is equal to an eye's diameter, 

 the lateral intervals rather less. Of the lower eyes the two 

 medians are prominent, standing well in front of the laterals 

 when viewed from above or from the side ; their diameter is 

 two-thirds of the laterals, about equal to the lateral interval, 

 the middle interval being slightly less. Clypeus very 



