134 N NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNIDA. 



Trochosa pieta, Halm. 



An adult male of a remarkable melanic variety of this 

 species was sent to me by Mr. George Potts, of Benthall 

 House, near Broseley, Shropshire, in the late summer of 

 1906. This variety is entirely black, while yet in certain 

 lights the characteristic markings are visible and of a 

 greyish hue. The example now recorded was taken on a 

 waste once the site of very ancient coal and iron workings, 

 and I have little doubt that a permanent race of a similar 

 variety might be found there. This species is liable to vary 

 in colour, and doubtless owing to its surroundings from a 

 long past. Thus in the neighbourhood of Bournemouth, 

 Hants, along the coast it is pretty common, and all the 

 examples I have seen there have been of a more or less 

 uni-colourous pale greyish yellow, with the characteristic 

 markings slightly visible. I have also found a similar 

 variety along the Chesil Beach near Weymouth, while on 

 the more variously-coloured surface of the heath districts 

 of Dorset and Hants the colours of this spider are rich and 

 strongly marked red, yellow, black, and white. 



Tarantula miniata, C. L. Koch. 



Adults of both sexes received from Dr. A. R. Jackson, 

 and found at Hastings by Mr. Bennett. 



Lyeosa paludieola, Clerck. 



Lycosa paludicola, Clk.-Cambr., Dor. N. H. and 



A. F. Club, xxiii., p. 29. 



In the record of this spider (I.e. supra), the author of the 

 species is, by an accidental error, given as C. L. Koch (I.e. 

 p. 29, and p. 17), but is rightly given (Clerck) in the 

 description of the plate, Fig. 12. For an account of the 

 synonyms of this species, cf., " Thorell, Synonyms of 

 European Spiders" p. 304, 1870, where the synonyms of 

 another allied British Species {Lycosa amentata, Clk.) are 

 also given. 



