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Troxochrus scalriciilus, Westr. 



An adult male from Southend-on-Sea (I\lr. Frank P. Smith). 

 Cnephalocotes obscurus, Bl. 



An adult male from Glenfarg, Perthshire (Mr. W. Evans). 

 Cnephalocotes pusillus, IMenge-Cambr., Proc. Zool. Soc., Lond., 

 1872, p. 753, pi. Ixv., fig. i. Sub. Erigone sila, Cambr. 

 An adult male found at Southport, Lancashire, by Mr. 

 Randall Jackson, and sent to me for examination by Mr. 

 Carpenter. This species had not before been found in 

 Britain. 

 Cornicularia vigilax, Bl. 



Males received from Southport, where it was found in 

 some abundance in April last by Mr. Cecil Warburton. I 

 have hitherto only met with it at rare intervals. 



Gen. nov. EVANSIA (p. 37 postea). 

 Evans ia me mis, sp. n. (p. 38). 



An adult male from Mr. W. Evans, found at Glenfarg, 

 Perthshire. 

 Tapinocyba pattens, Cambr., Proc. Zool. Soc., Lond., 1872, p. 753, 



pi. Ixv., fig. 8. Sub. Erigone pattens. 

 An adult male from Mr. W. Evans, found near Lanark, 

 Scotland. This is its first record as a British spider. 

 Diplocephalus Alpinus, Cambr. 



Examples of this species have again been received from 



Mr. W. Evans, from Scotland, and Mr. Carpenter tells me 



he has received one from Southport, Lancashire, whence I 



have also myself lately received it from Mr. Cecil Warburton. 



Diplocephalus speciosus, Cambr. 



Adult males from Mr. W. Evans, Berwickshire. 

 Mr. Carpenter, in " List of Spiders of Ireland," 1898, Proc. 

 Roy. Ir. Acad., p. 163, speaks of this species as widespread 

 in Ireland. I have not seen any of the Irish specimens. 

 Diplocephalus Bcckii, Cambr. 



An adult male from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh 

 (Mr. W. Evans). 



