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By the Rev. 0. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A., F.R.S. 



rnY own outdoor observations have been, I regret to 

 say, still very limited during the past year; but 

 by the welcome assistance of several corres- 

 pondents, who have sent to me the results of 

 their labours, and kindly allowed me to utilise 

 them, I am enabled to report a good increase to 

 the List of British Arachnids, mostly Spiders 

 {Araneidta) ; and also to make some rectifications 

 of synonyma and notes on scientific and other points. 



I have now to record the addition of five new and hitherto 

 undescribed species of Araneidea, two others known on the 

 Continent of Europe, but not before recorded in Britain, and 

 another, of which the female is now recorded and described as 

 new to science. Besides the above, Dr. A. Randell Jackson 

 has, since the publication of my report in the Proceedings of 

 our Club for iqo5, described a spider new to science, in the Proc. 

 of the Chester Soc., and two others not before recorded as 

 British, and one other has been recorded, for the first time in 

 the British Islands, by Mr. Pack Beresford. These also will be 

 found recorded and described in the following list. 



Among those who have kindly sent to me collections and 

 examples of Arachnids I would especially mention the following, 



