NOTED AND OBSERVED IN 1909. 



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



PLATE A. 



T AM still indebted to the kind assistance of corres- 

 pondents for the greater part of the materials 

 on which the following remarks are based. 

 With their help, the result of the past year's 

 collecting and observations enables me to 

 record the addition of several species to 

 the British and Irish List. Of these, two 

 are, it is believed, new to science, and three 

 others are recorded as new to the British list. These last 

 three are specially remarkable, having been described and 

 figured by myself many years ago ; two in 1872 (Notioscopus 

 sarcinatus, Cambr., and Cornicularia Kochii, Cambr.) from 

 Bavaria and Warsaw, and the third (Hypselistes florens 

 Cambr.), from Boston in North America in 1875 ; since those 

 dates (excepting a male of C. Kochii from Holland in 1889) 

 no record of their occurrence has been made until their 

 discovery now in England. Further reference will be made 

 to these in the subjoined list. I must here mention a fine 

 Clubiona received from Mr. W. P. Winter, of Shipley, York- 

 shire. This appears to be undoubtedly new to science (on 

 this spider see postea, p. 68). Besides the above, I have re- 

 ceived several very rare species from the New Forest ; two 



