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described and figured in the ' Linnean Transactions' (xxviii.). 

 About the same time several collections were sent to me from 

 the neighbourhood of Aberdeen and other parts of Scotland, 

 by Mr. J. W. H. Traill, of the University, Aberdeen. The new 

 species contained in these collections were also described 

 and published by myself in the 'Linnean Transactions' (xxviii.), 

 and a general list was published by Mr. Traill in the ' Scottish 

 Naturalist,' vol. ii., pp. 24, 25, and 300. This list contained 

 one hundred and thirty-three species belonging to twenty- 

 three genera. More lately still I have received some small 

 collections made in the neighbourhood of Castle Douglas, 

 N.B., from Mr. W. D. R. Douglas, of Orchardton ; and in 

 the vicinity of Glasgow, from Mr. H. C. Young, of Port 

 Dundas, in that city. 



The time appears now to have arrived for summarising 

 the results of all the lists and collections referred to ; and this 

 task I have attempted in the present list. After the name of 

 each species the localities in which it has been found are 

 given, and after each locality the initials of the collector are 

 added within parentheses. The names to which these initials 

 refer will be found in a note; and in another note is a 

 reference to those papers and publications in which the 

 various spiders now tabulated, or any of them, have been 

 noticed. 



The nomenclature and classification adopted are mainly those 

 contained in a "Systematic List of British Spiders" (Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. vol. xxx. pp. 319 — 334). For synonyms of such 

 spiders as were known up to the time of their publication, 

 reference must be made not only to the works of Mr. John 

 Blackwall, and the papers of the present writer in the 

 ' Linnean Transactions,' &c., but also to the important works 

 of Dr. T. Thorell, of Upsala {vide note 1, post.). 



The number of species contained in the subjoined list, as 

 the result of the different collections and lists above mentioned, 

 is two hundred and thirteen, belonging to fifty-three genera, 

 and distributed among nine families. It should be mentioned, 

 however, that the apparently great increase of genera repre- 

 sented in the present list is mainly due to the generic limits 

 adopted by Mr. Blackwall, and by myself in earlier British 

 lists, having been considerably altered. 



It cannot be considered that the number of Scottish 



