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in the female, while the male is distinguished from A. Paniscus by 

 its banded abdomen, and from A. cinfiuhdm by its different banding. 

 Several other continental species are probably also very much allied, but 

 in most cases better descriptions are wanted ; a few further notes upon 

 allied species are given under A. Paniscus. 



A. circumdatus was not fully recognised by me as British until I saw 

 two specimens which were sent by Mr E. C. Bradley for exhibition at the 

 Entomological Society on April 20, 1904 ; the male of these two was 

 caught by Mr W. G. Blatch at Poole in Dorset on July 24, 1870, and the 

 female by Mr E. C. Bradley at Bournemouth (which is close by, though in 

 Hampshire) on August 30, 1900. I next saw a female which had been 

 taken by Mr H. Donisthorpe in the New Forest on August 1, 1901, and 

 then two pairs taken by Mr F. C. Adams at Lyndhurst on July 22 to 28, 

 1901. It is practically certain that this is the species recorded by Curtis 

 in 1824 under the name of A.flava, upon which he said, "End of June, 

 " borders of woods, Devon, Parley Heath, upon places where the turf had 

 " l)een peeled off, and hovering over a bank ; Mr Dale, Monk's Wood, 

 " Huntingdonshire ; Eev. W. L. P. Garnons," and lieing desirous of testing 

 Curtis' locality I went in August, 1904, to Parley Heath and Canford 

 Heath, but found only A. fcncstratua sparingly ; a visit however to the 

 Eev. 0. Pickard-Cambridge disclosed a long series (twenty or more) of 

 A. circwndatus which had been taken by him on Bloxworth Heath at 

 intervals in the previous thirty or forty years, and no allied species was 

 known to him, so that Coucke's idea of all these closely allied species lieing 

 only varieties of one species is completely dissipated. The Eev. 0. Pickard- 

 Cambridge used to take them when searching for the spider, Xydinis 

 sahulosus, which occurs about the end of August and in September. I 

 subsequently saw odd specimens which had been taken in the New Forest 

 by Colonel Yerbury (August 31, 1894, 1?) and Mr H. W. Andrews 

 (August 21, 1903, 16), near Chobham in Surrey by Mr Edward Saunders 

 (August, 1904 and 1905), and finally Colonel Yerbury, Mr J. E. Collin, 

 and myself found the females not uncommon at Studland, Arne, and 

 Bloxworth Heaths in Dorset in August 1906 from the 22nd to the 27th 

 (but only one male), when they were rather worn and after which date 

 not a single specimen was seen. I have no doubt it occurs over a very 

 wide expanse of the commons in the south of England, but its haljitats 

 are quite distinct from those of either A. Paniscus or A. cingulatus. 



Synonymy. — There can be no doubt but that this species is the one recorded by 

 Curtis under the name of A.flava from at least the Parley Heath locality, though 

 Curtis does not seem to have recognised that the female of A. Paniscus (called by 

 him A. hottentotta) has pale bands on the abdomen. A specimen exists in the Hope 

 Museum at Oxford under the label of Anthrax Behehub. and the species does bear 

 a superficial resemblance to Lomatia sahcea and to a less extent to L. Belzehuh ; 

 another specimen in the same museum stands under the name of A. cingulatus, 

 though there is also a specimen correctly labelled A. circutHilatus. 



