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name is, that the name Regia is contained in a letter from Sir H. W. 

 Wheatley to the President of the Royal Geographical Society (Ann. 

 and Mag. Nat. Hist. December 1850) conveying the Queen's plea- 

 sure that the plant in question should be dedicated to Her Majesty ; 

 but it appears by a letter from Capt. Washington (Secretary to the 

 Society) to Dr. Lindley (Aunals, Dec. 1850, p. 493), that the Queen 

 had very properly accepted the dedication conditionally. That Her 

 Majesty should be graciously pleased to accept the dedication of the 

 plant is indeed an honour to the science of botany, and the reserve 

 expressed respecting the genus shows a just anxiety to support the 

 established rules which must apply also to the name of the species. 

 No reason therefore remains for retaining the name Regia : but it is 

 much to be regretted that it was so hastily adAased. 



I have lately been shown that I am not the first to suggest that 

 Victoria amasonica would be the proper name. The editor of the 

 'Magazine of Science' (vol. i. p. 22. for 1840) has stated in a note, 

 that " the new name then, unless retained by the consent of Dr. Pop- 

 pig, must be given up." Yom-s, &c., 



J. De C. Sowerby. 



List of Spiders captured by F. Walker, Esq. 



For the names of the spiders in the following list I am indebted to 

 the kindness of Mr. Blackwall, who has also specified the sex and the 

 epoch of growth of each spider. The localities of a few are mentioned ; 

 all the rest were found near Southgate. 



Segestria senoculata, November 1847. Immature, June, July 

 1849. Under fallen pales near woods, and in crevices of the bark of 

 plane-trees. 



Lycosa (agretycaV). Immature, May 1848. 



Salticus coronatus. Male adult. May 1848. 



cupreiis. Male adult. May 1848. 



Cluhiona accentuata. Immature, May, June 1848, July 1849. 



{amaranthal). Male adult, May, June 1848, June 1849 ; 



male immature, April 1848, November 1847 ; female immature, No- 

 vember 1847- Under fallen pales on the borders of woods. When 

 young on the beech in May, feeding on Aphis Fagi. 



Clubiona (corticalisl). Male immature, November 1847- 



Pachygnatha Clerckii. Male adult, August 1849; female adult 

 and immature, August 1849. 



Pachygnatha Begeeri. Male. adult, May 1848, August 1849; 

 female, August 1849. Female, September, Broadstairs, 1848. 



Hecaerge spinimana. Female adult, July 1849. 



Thomisus cristatus. Male immature. May, June 1848, August 

 1849 ; September, Broadstairs, 1848: male adult. May, June 1849, 

 May, Birchwood, 1847. On the juniper. — Female immature, Juue 

 1848, 1849. The young of a species of this genus dwell in moss 

 during the winter. 



Thomisus citreus. Male adult. May 1848. 



Dolomedes {rnirabilisl). Female immature, July 1849. 



Philodromus aureolus. Immature, November 1847, May 1848 ; 



