ON BRITISH ARACHXIDA. Ill 



triangle. This variety, I have before noted (Proc. Dors. 

 X.H. and A.F. Club, 1905, Vol. XXVI., p. 54), as most 

 probably identical with Epeira signata, Bl. 



Epeira dromedapia, Walck (Figs. 15, 16, 17). 



Epfira dromedaria, Walck., Simon, Les Arachn. de 



France I., p. 62, 1871. 

 Araneus dromedarius, Walck., A. R. Jackson, I.e. supra, 



p. 9, PI. x., Fi^s. 8, 8a. 



Adult females of this fine species were found at Burnham 

 Beeches, in June, 1908, by Dr. A. R. Jackson, and had been 

 up to that time unrecorded as British. I have received both 

 sexes from Guernsey from Mr. E. W. Marquand, and the 

 female from Lisbon ; it is also said to be abundant and 

 widely distributed in France. It may, perhaps, be a local 

 spider in Great Britain, but possibly a little careful work in 

 the locality mentioned would turn it up in fair numbers. 

 It can hardly be mistaken for any other known British 

 species, both its form and markings being so very distinct 

 and characteristic. 



Fam. 



Xysticus luetuosus, Black\v. 



Adult females were received in July, 1908, from Dr. 

 Grierson, by whom they were found near Grimsby, Lincoln- 

 shire. 



Philodpomus emarginatus. Schrank. 



Philodromus limatipes, Cambr., Spid. Dors., pp. 334 

 and 538 ; Proc. Dors. F. 

 Club, XIV., p. 1 6 1. 



It has been long known to me that these two species 

 were identical, but the record of this identity has been until 

 now inadvertently omitted in past records of British spiders. 

 It is a very distinct and widely distributed spider, having 

 been found both in Scotland and in Hampshire and Dorset 

 on the lower branches of Scotch firs. 



