112 ON BRITISH ARACHNIDA. 



Fam. LYCOSID^S. 



Dolomedes fimbriatus, Walck. 



Adults of both sexes of this large and showy spider were 

 found abundantly in a ditch on the borders ol a swamp at 

 Hyde, near Bloxworth, in June, 1908, by Dr. A. R. Jackson. 



Tarentula miniata, C. L. Koch (Figs. 27, 28). 



An adult male received from Mr. G. A. Dunlop, by whom 

 it was found at Highton, Lancashire ; also adult females in 

 October, 1908, from Mr. Edward Saunders, from the 

 Camber Rye Sandhills, Sussex. 



Tarentula meridiana, Hahn (Thorell Syn., Europ. Spid., 



p. 274). (Figs. 29, 30.) 



Tarentula nemoralis, Westr., Araneae Suecica, p. 472. 

 F. P. Smith, Journ., Quekett 



Microscopical Club, 1907, p. 

 185, and 1908, p. 320. 

 ,, nivalis, C. L. Koch., Die Arachn., xiv., p. 



119, pi. xiv.,, fig. 1409-1410. 



Both sexes of this interesting addition to our List of 

 British Spiders were received in 1908 from Mr. F. P. Smith, 

 who found them in a wood and on wastes near Bexhill, 

 Sussex. 



The species is very closely allied to T, miniata, C. L. 

 Koch, but it is usually less distinct and bright in its 

 markings, and appears to frequent a different habitat, the 

 latter being, so far as my experience goes, found on dry, 

 bare, and sandy spots, while T. meridiana appears to inhabit 

 more commonly woodland and \vaste regions. Dr. Thorell 

 gives it as identical with Tarentula niralis, C. L. Koch, 

 a species I met with frequently in Alpine regions on the 

 Continent, on wooded slopes and banks and wastes by 

 streams and rivers. The examples received from Sussex 

 agree structurally, as well as in other respects, with the 



