jlleto ant Bare firitisi) 



NOTED AND OBSERVED IN 1912. 



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



With Plate. 



past year (1912) has brought me a fair 

 number of additions to our British List of 

 Spiders (Araneidea). I wish I could say 

 that my own personal efforts had had a 

 greater share in producing these results ; 

 but these have been made mainly possible 

 by the continued kind help and exertions 

 of my correspondents, both friends and 

 relations. To all who have so contributed 

 during the past year I am again now indebted, as well as to 

 some others (and amongst these I must specially add the 

 name of a valuable Dorset correspondent Dr. Haines, of 

 Winfrith), whose collections, though containing no novelties, 

 yet by many rare and local forms bore testimony not only to 

 their kindness to me but to their efforts to add to our know- 

 ledge of this comparatively neglected group of animals. 

 The names of those who have added to our List species new to 



