208 [May. 



which I have named similis, from the close resemblance which it bears 

 to /S". carnaria, differing from it onlj by the want of the dorsal spines 

 upon the edge of the second abdominal segment. In female specimens 

 of ;S'. carnaria, these spines are sometimes small and absent ; and in 

 a few males I have found them much less than usual : it must there- 

 fore remain to be determined by future investigations whether *S'. 

 similis is to be ranked as a true species, or only a variety of S. carnaria. 



Bradford, Yorkshire : 



November, 1875. 



NOTES ON SOME BKITISH JDOLICHOPODID.E, WTTTT DESCRIPTIONS 

 OF NEW SPECIES. 



BY G. H. VERRALL. ^ 



(concluded from page 248.) 



Teuchophortjs spiiv'igerellus, Zett. 



This species seems rare, but I have caught it at Lyndhiirst, Da- 

 renth, Upware, Eeigate, &c. 



T. PECTiNiFER, Kow., Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xviii, p. 218 (18G8). 

 The species recorded in my list as calcaratus, I believe to be 

 pectinifer : I only caught the specimens after the list was in type, 

 and did not sufficiently study the distinctive characters. I con- 

 sider calcaratus sure to occur in Britain. Pectinifer is well dis- 

 tinguished in the male sex by its legs, the hind tibiae being rather 

 stout, with a peculiar tuft of bristles inside, about the middle ; the 

 front tarsi are slightly bristly beneath the basal joint, and the middle 

 femora bear about four conspicuous bristles beneath near the base. The 

 alulae in my specimens seem pale-haired. I caught this species near 

 Three Bridges on July 28th, 1872, in a small wood, about little pools 

 of water in the paths, in such abundance, that I often had forty or 

 fifty specimens in my net at once. It was previously only recorded 

 from Austria. 



Stmptcxijs cirrhipes, Hal. 



I caught one male at Bracmar on July 22nd. 



S. NIGRITIBIALIS, Zett. 



This is about the size of >S'. annulijyes, but is easily distinguished 

 by its black hind tibiae ; the face is narrower and whiter, the antennae 



