46 ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNIDA. 



Enoplognatha thoracica, Hahn. 



An adult female, Sherwood Forest, Dr. Carr. 

 Robertas negleetus, Cambr. 



Robertus astutus, Cambr., Spid. Dors., p. 103. 

 Pedanostethus neglect us, Cambr., Spid. Dors, (sub 



Neriene}, p. 121. 



Neriene aspera, Cambr., Spid. Dors., p. 136. 

 An adult male, Huddersfield, W. Falconer. 

 Adult males, Hexham, Dr. A. R. Jackson, and 

 An adult female, Epping Forest, F. P. Smith. 

 On a careful re-examination of the types and other 

 examples since met with, it seems certain that the three 

 above spiders are identical. Roberius neglectus, Cambr., was 

 described in 1870, and is therefore prior to R. astulus, 

 which was described in 1879. Pedanostethus (Neriene} 

 aspera was also described in 1870, but its description 

 occurs several pages later than that of P. neglectus. 



The genus Pedanostelhus, Sim., was characterised by M. 

 Simon in 1884, while Robertus, Cambr., was published in 

 1879, and thus takes precedence of Pedanostethus, with 

 which it seems to be undoubtedly congeneric. 



Leptyphantes minutus, Bl. 



Leptjyphantes cingulipes, Cambr. 



L. cingulipes appears to be only an abnormally coloured 

 example of L. minutus, Bl. 



Bathyphantes pullatus, Cambr. 



Linyphia crucigera, Bl. 



Linyphia crucigera, Bl., is a pale variety of B. pullatus, 

 Cambr., in which the chief or sometimes only dark marking 

 left on the upper surface of the abdomen is of a cruciform 

 shape. There are, however, in a series of examples 

 numerous varieties intermediate between the above and the 

 normally marked specimens. 



