20 NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 



(Norfolk), from Mr. W. Evans (Scotland), and from Mr. H. 

 J. Moule, as well as from Mr. Prideaux (Dorchester). The 

 range of this species is thus a very extended one, but I have 

 not yet known it to occur in anything like abundance 

 excepting once, many years ago, near Salisbury. 



FAM. 

 Drassus macer* Thor.-Cambr. 



An adult male was sent to me from Kew in June, 1899, by 

 Mr. Nicholson, Sub-Curator of the Royal Gardens. 

 Prosthesima Latreillii, Sim. 



An adult female from Mr. Nicholson (Kew). 

 Cluliona neglecta, Cambr. 



An adult male from Mr. Nicholson (Kew), and another 

 from the Rev. E. A. W. Peacock, Cadney, Lincolnshire. 

 Chiracanthittm lapidicolens, Sim. = C. nutrix, Westr. -Cambr. 

 An adult female, from Mr. F. P. Smith, Norwich. 



FAM. AGELENID^:. 

 Tegenaria pagana, C. L. Koch. Die. Arachn. viii., p. 31, pi. 262, 



figs. 612, 613. 



An adult female, from Mr. F. P. Smith, found near 



Birmingham, in the Autumn of 1899. This species is nearly 



allied to T. campestris, C. L. Koch-Cambr., but is larger. 



It has not before been recorded as British. 



Tdrilm arietinus, Thor., Syn. Eur. Spid., p. 165. Sub. Cryphoeca 



arictina. 



Adult and immature males of this spider were found 

 by Mr. Horace Donisthorpe, in the nest of Formica ru/a, at 

 Oxshott, in Surrey. It is an exceedingly remarkable species, 

 from the great development of the palpal organs in the adult 

 male, and is a fine addition to the list of our indigenous 

 spiders. 

 Cryphoeca diversa, Cambr. 



An immature male of this spider was also received recently 

 from Mr. Donisthorpe. It was found by him in a nest of 



