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56. Epeira celaia. Cephalothorax pale brown with black margins, 

 a few transverse black lines on the sides, and a band of the same hue 

 extending along the middle and increasing in breadth as it approach- 

 es the eyes, where it comprises several pale brown spots : legs long, 

 yellowish brown, with black spots and rings : abdomen mottled with 

 black and brown, having an obscm'e, yellowish, curved line on each 

 side of the anterior part, and a broad, dentated, yellow band, extend- 

 ing along the middle above, this band, which comprises a fine, longi- 

 tudinal, branched line, of a darker hue, is narrowest at its anterior 

 extremity, near which a short yellow line crosses it at right angles ; 

 on each side of the middle beneath, is a longitudinal yellow line : its 

 length is ^ of an inch : found in damp caverns and hollow banks, to 

 which it attaches a subglobular cocoon in May; this cocoon, which 

 is composed of whitish silk of a loose texture, is depressed on the at- 

 tached side, and measures about half an inch in diameter ; it compri- 

 ses between two and three hundred spherical eggs, of a yellow colour, 

 agglutinated together in a lenticular mass measuring -j4 of an inch in 

 diameter. (Id. 668). 



Edward Newman. 



Art. XLIX. — A List of Insects found near Harrietshaniy in Kent ; 

 together witlt the Description of a new Genus and Species of 

 Yponomeutid(B. By James Francis Stephens, Esq. F.L.S. &;c. 



Eltham Cottage, Foxley Road, 

 My Dear Sir, Kennington, September 9, 1841. 



" Local lists of insects are particularly solicited," you observe on 

 your wrapper : in consequence it was my intention to have furnislied you, from my 

 register, with an ' Entomologia Harrietsbameusis, ' but I have since concluded only 

 to make a sort of 'Selectee e Profanis' from my captures between the 8th of June and 

 3rd of July, 1840, in the vicinity of the quiet village above alluded to, Harrietsham, 

 near Maidstone, embracing a circle about eight miles in diameter ; hoping that it may 

 be useful and acceptable to your readers, by indicating some few " good things," as 

 well as recording some novelties. The district in question is pleasingly situated be- 

 tween the lofty chalk range forming the " back-bone " of Kent, and the rocky hills of 

 Kentish rag on the borders of the weald. The soil in geueral is sandy loam, poor and 

 unproductive; and as the season was a remarkably bad one for insects, it was only by 

 sheer perseverance and great exertion that I was enabled to gain an insight into its 

 Entomology ; added to which, during the whole period of my researches the thermo- 

 meter never once reached 70", but was for the most part under 64", often not higher 

 than 58" at 2 o'clock, and the sun rarely visible; cold northerly winds, accompanied 

 by almost incessant drizzle, lending their cheerless influence against me, one half of 

 the time. I contrived, however, to capture and register upwards of 2000 species, in- 



