62 ON BRITISH ABACHNIDA. 



Fam. THOMISID/E. 



Xysticus ulmi, Hahn. 



Immature examples received from the Rev. J. H. 

 Bloom, Whitchurch, Stratford-on-Avon, July, 1909 ; 

 an example was also received from Mr. H. Donisthorpe, 

 found near Byde, in September, 1909. 



Xysticus robustus, Hahn. 



An adult male and two adult females were received from 

 Mr. H. Donisthorpe, by whom they were found in a sand- 

 pit in the New Forest, near the Beaulieu Road station, in 

 May, 1909. This species has not been recorded in Britain 

 since July, 1882, when I met with the female among 

 heather on Bloxworth Heath, the only example (an adult 

 male) recorded previous to that having occurred in 

 the same locality in May, 1854. It is, in many respects, 

 one of the most striking species, and one of the largest 

 of those found in Great Britain, if not also in Europe. 



Xysticus luctator, L. Koch. 



An adult male of this fine species was found by Mr. H. 

 Donisthorpe in the New Forest at the same time and in 

 the same locality as the species last recorded ( X. robustus, 

 Hahn.). It is as large, and even longer in the legs than 

 that species. The only examples previously recorded as 

 British are the adult male (noted above, p. 48), found by 

 myself on Bloxworth Heath in May, 1854, and an adult 

 female not long after in the same locality. 



Oxyptila nigrita, Thor. 



An adult female found by Dr. A. R. Jackson, either at 

 Portland or at Swanage, in 1908. The only hitherto 

 recorded occurrences of this species in Great Britain were 

 at Deal in 1907 and Dover in 1906 (see Proc. Dors. N.H. 

 and A.F. Club, XXIX., p. 181, 1908). The present 

 record, therefore, is its first in the county of Dorset. 



