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rufcolus Sim., from London (Mr. H. Donisthorpe) as well as 

 two other rare forms C kernes phaleratus, Sim., sent to me by 

 Mr. Wallis Kew from Essex, and Obisium maritimum, Leach, 

 from Port Erin Bay, Isle of Man, by Dr. A. D. Timms. This 

 last is only its second record in England, the other being from 

 the Devonshire coast. The only remaining record to be made 

 now is that of a rare Acarid, Glvphopsis Bostockii (A. D. Michael, 

 sent to me by Mr. Claude Morley from an ant's nest (Lasius 

 flavus] in Suffolk. 



I wish I could report that the study and collecting of the 

 Arachnida had been taken up by some one or more Dorset 

 residents. Though I regret to say this has not hitherto come 

 about, I hope it will yet be achieved. At times, when I have 

 endeavoured to stir up a little enthusiasm on the subject, I have 

 been met with the objection that, as I had apparently so 

 thoroughly worked out this branch of Natural History in 

 Dorsetshire myself, there was nothing more to be done ! Well ! 

 the result of two or three days' work in June last by Dr. Jackson 

 (of which I have mentioned above some particulars) during his 

 hasty visit to Dorsetshire rather disproves the idea of nothing 

 left to be done. A new species and several others of rarity (one 

 as good as new) shews that there is yet much to be expected 

 from careful collecting even where my own longest and hardest 

 work has been bestowed. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE ARACHNIDA 

 FOUND IN GREAT BRITAIN CHIEFLY IN 1904 AND 1905. 



ORDER ARANEIDEA. 

 Fam. DRASSID^. 



Drassus pubeseens, Thor. 



Examples of this species were received from Wicken Fen, 

 Cambridgeshire (Mr. F. P. Smith), and from Nottingham- 

 shire (Dr. Carr). 



