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LIST OF ADDITIONAL SPECIES. 

 Prosthesima electa (C. L. K.). 



Drassics puniilus, Bl. Spid. Gt. Brit, and Irel. 



A single example (a female) of this rare spider was 

 captured on 10th June 1897, while running in the sunshine 

 on a bare sandy spot on Largo Links, coast of Fife. The 

 Eev. 0. P. Cambridge, to whom we are indebted for the 

 identification of this specimen, informs us that it differs 

 greatly in its colours from the normal types, the cephalo- 

 thorax and tarsi being yellowish- 

 brown, in place of red-brown; the 

 femora rather paler yellow-brown, in 

 place of yellow-red; and the genuse 

 and tibiae deep brown, in place of 

 black-brown. In England the species J] 

 has apparently occurred only in i. 

 Lancashire and Norfolk, and the 

 present is the only Scottish record. The genital aperture, 

 of which (magnified) we give a figure, is of a very distinct 

 and characteristic form. 



Asagena phalerata (Panz.). 



Theridion signatum, Bl. Spid. Gt. Brit, and Irel. 



An immature example of this well-marked species was 

 obtained at Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, in January 1897. 

 An adult female was taken near Oldcambus, in Berwick- 

 shire, by Hardy many years ago. The only other Scottish 

 locality known to us for the species is Aviemore, Inverness- 

 shire, where it was common in May and June 1893 (Evans 

 —see Annals Scot. Met. Hist., 1894, p. 230). 



Microneta rurestris (C. L K.). 



Nerienejlavipes, Bl. Spid. Gt. Brit, and Irel. 

 Nerie^iie fuscipalpis (in part), Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 



Since the publication of our list, it has become clear to 

 us that two species are included under the name Neriene 



