50 ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNIDA. 



Epigone promiseua, Cambr., Pi. B, Fig. 6. 



Widely distributed and not rare in some localities both in 

 England and Scotland. Until very recently (when both 

 sexes were sent to me by Mr. Ruskin Butterfield from St. 

 Leonard's-on-Sea) I had not been able to identify the 

 female. In several characters this sex is very similar to the 

 females of other nearly-allied species. 



Erigone atra, Bl., PI. B., Fig. 8. 



Abundant and generally distributed in England and 

 Scotland. 



Lophomma stativum, Sim., PI. A, Figs. 19, 20, 21. 



Lophomma stativum, Sim., Arachn. de France, V., 



p. 540. 



Both sexes, adult, were received from Mr. Ruskin Butter- 

 field, by whom they were found at St. Leonard's-on-Sea in 

 1904. It is a very distinct species, and this is its first 

 British record. A description is added (postea, p. 64). 



Lophomma laudatum, Cambr., PL B, Fig. 9. 



Tapinocyba subcequalis, Cambr., "Proc." Dorset N.H. 



and A.F. Club, Vol. XXIV., p. 159. 



Lophomma laudatum is nearly allied to T. subccqualis, 

 Cambr., but they may be distinguished by the hind-central 

 eyes in L. laudatum, being nearer together than to the hind- 

 laterals, and other slight differences, while the females also 

 differ considerably in the form of the genital aperture. 

 The spider recorded as Tapinocyba subccqualis, Cambr., I.e. 

 supra, is certainly Lophomma laudatum, Cambr. 



Lophomma subaequale, Westr., PI. B, Fig. 10. 



Tapinocyba subaqualis, Westr.-Cambr., List of Brit. 



and Ir. Spid., 48. 



This spider is undoubtedly a Lophomma. (See observa- 

 tions on the preceding species.) 



