ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNID A. 117 



Maso gallica, Sim. 



Maso Sundevallii, Westr.- Simon, Arachnides de 

 France, V., p. 862. 



,, gallica, Sim. Falconer, " Naturalist," 

 October, 1912, pp. 313, 320. 



Both sexes were obtained by Dr. Jackson and Mr. 

 Falconer in Wicken Fen in June, 1912. It is a very 

 distinct little species, and had not been before recorded 

 as British. (Further particulars are added postea, 

 p. 132). 



Gongylidium retusum, Westr. 



Neriene retusa, Westr. -Cambr., Spid. Dors., 

 p. 116. 



elevata, Cambr., Zoologist, 1862, p. 7966. 



Examples of this spider, always of great rarity hitherto 



in Dorsetshire, were taken on iron railings on the lawn at 



Bloxworth Rectory in June, 1912, by the Rev. R. J. 



Pickard-Cambridge and A. E. LI. P.-C. 



Gongylidiellum murcidum, Sim. 



Gongylidiellum murcidum, Sim. -Cambr., Proc. 



Dors. F. Club, Vol. XVI., pp. 105, 125, and 



Vol. XXX., p. 105. 



Dr. Jackson and Mr. Falconer met with this rare 

 spider in some abundance in Wicken Fen in June, 1912. 

 (" Naturalist," October, 1912, p. 314.) The New Forest 

 and Wicken Fen appear to be as yet the only known 

 localities in which it has been found. It is probably a 

 marsh-loving species, and would be found in other 

 similar localities yet unsearched. 



(?) Gongylidiellum incertum, sp.n. Figs. 7, 8, 9. 



A very distinct female spider, sent to me from Nethy 

 Bridge, Scotland, by Mr. H. Donisthorpe in May, 1912. 

 It appears to me to be of an undescribed species, and to 



