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XVI. Additional Records of Spiders and other Arachnids 

 from the Edinburgh District. (Second Instalment.) 

 By George H. Carpenter, B.Sc, and William 

 Evans, F.E.S.E. 



(Read 18th January 1899.) 

 I. ARANEIDEA {SPIDERS). 



In April 1896 we laid before the Society a first instalment 

 of additions to our list of the Spiders of the Edinburgh 

 District, which was afterwards published in the Proceedings, 

 Vol. XIII. pp. 308-315. We now submit a second supple- 

 ment, containing records of eleven further additions, which 

 brings the total number of species at present known to occur 

 in the district up to 190.^ Six of the eleven — namely, 

 Prosthesima electa (C. L. K.), Microneta rurestris (C. L. K.), 

 Entelecarci trifrons (Cb.), Diplocephalus speciosus (Cb,), 

 Tapinocyba subitanea (Cb.), and Pachygnatha listeri, Sund. 

 — are not only additions to the Edinburgh list, but to the 

 Scottish list as well. One of the remaining five is the 

 large, beautifully-marked Epeira quadrata (Clk.), a species 

 we are the more pleased to be able to include, seeing we 

 drew attention to its absence from the original list. 



Fresh localities for some of the rarer species already on 

 the list have also been discovered, and of these, with a few 

 others of county interest, we likewise submit a memor- 

 andum. Perhaps the most interesting record in this section 

 is that relating to Prosopotheca monoceros (Wid.), the female of 

 which had not previously been obtained in the British Isles. 



During the four and a half years that have elapsed since 

 the publication of our main list (Proceedings, Vol. XII. pp. 

 527-590), proposed changes in nomenclature and arrange- 

 ment have assuredly not been wanting. Beyond giving 

 effect to a few necessary alterations, chiefly in specific 

 names, we do not, however, propose to depart at present 

 from the lines followed in drawing up the original list. 



1 The discovery of EnteUcara fhorellii since the above was written raises 

 the total to 191. No doubt the number of additions might have been greater, 

 but for some time past other groups have been occupying my attention, to the 

 comparative exclusion of the Spiders. — W. E, 



