ON BRITISH ARACHNID A. 49 



on the British Phalangidea or Harvest Men, 1890 " (Vol. XI.), 

 and on the British Chernetidea, or False Scorpions, 1892 

 (Vol. XIII.), published in the Dorset Field Club Proceedings. 



I should mention here that Papers have also been published 

 during the past year on some British Spiders, by the Rev. J. 

 E. Hull (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Northumberland, Durham, 

 and Newcastle-upoii-Tyne, ii.s.,Vol.IIL, Part 2, and " Natural- 

 ist," 1909, August 1), and by Mr. W. Falconer, " Natural- 

 ist," August and September, 1909, and February, 1910. 

 Mr. T. Stainforth, of the Municipal Museum, Hull, also gives 

 a List of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Arachnids in 

 Trans, of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club. 



I must not conclude these few introductory remarks 

 without thanking the Dorset Field Club most heartily for 

 having so long continued to publish my annual remarks 

 and notes on a subject not congenial (to say the least of it) 

 to the greater part of our members. I wish I could report 

 that my efforts had prevailed upon some, or some one of 

 them at least, to take up this special branch of natural history 

 investigation ; but the coming student of arachnology among 

 our Dorset Natural History and Field Club members is still 

 coming, though when he or she may arrive who shall say ? 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNIDA. 

 Order ARANEIDEA. 



Fam. THERAPHOSIDJE. 



Atypus aflinis, Eichwald. 



In the Proc. Dors. N.H. and A.F. Club XXIX. (1908), 

 p. 164, it is stated that A. af finis, Eich., is the only 

 British representative of the family. This was an over- 

 sight, as another species was found by the late Mr. 

 Richard Beck at St. Leonard's, near Hastings. (Atypus 

 Beckii, Cambr.), vide Spid. Dorset, Vol. I., p. 4. 



