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NOTED AND OBSERVED IN 1908. 



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



PLATE A. 



of our 



HAVE no records just now for 1908 on any group of 

 Arachnids, excepting that of the true spiders 

 (Order Araneidea) ; but, having had the continued 

 kind assistance of correspondents, I am able to 

 note several additions of indigenous species to 

 our British list and to record the discovery of 

 another interesting exotic spider inhabiting hot- 

 houses in Ireland, and allied to those of the 

 Sub-family Onopincc, recorded in 1908, Vol. XXIX. 

 Proceedings." 



Of the species now added to our list of British spiders the two 

 most showy and striking in appearance are Epeira dromedaria, 

 Walckenaer, and Tarantula meridiana, Hahn. The former was 

 found by Dr. A. R. Jackson, of Chester, at Burnham Beeches, 

 and is of so very distinct and showy an appearance that one 

 wonders how it has happened never to have turned up before. 



