124 ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNIDS. 



Protadia patula, Sim. ; Dr. A. Randell 

 Jackson, Trans. Nottingham Naturalists' 

 Society for 1911, pp. 2023. 



Dr. Jackson (I.e. supra) describes the male, the female 

 only having been described previously, and distinguishes 

 the species from Protadia subnigra, Cambr. 



Fam. HAHNIID^E. 



Hahnia Candida, Sim. 



Hahnia Candida, Sim. ; Cambr. Spid. Dors., p. 71. 

 An adult female was found among heather in Morden 

 Park by my son (W. A. P.-Cambridge) in Sept., 1913, 

 and a male and two females (adult) were sent to me 

 from Ringstead, where they were taken by Dr. Haines 

 in the same month. Hitherto the only known British 

 locality has been at Portland. 



Fam. THERIDIIDJE. 



Episinus lugubris, Sim. 



Episinus lugubris, Sim. ; Arachn. de France, 

 torn. V., p. 42, and Cambr. Proc. Dors. F. Club, 

 Vol. XXVII., pp. 74, 83, pi. A., fig. 2. 

 Adults of both sexes, as w^ell as immature examples, 

 found by my son (A. E. LI. P.-C.) in several coppices at 

 Bloxworth in May, 1913. 



Theridion simile, C. L. Koch. 



Theridion salvum, Cambr. ; Proc. Dors. N. H. 

 and A. F. Club XXXIII., pp. 70, 74, 88, pi. A, 

 figs. 8, 9, 10. 



On further consideration of the type specimen of 

 T. salvum and comparison with examples of Theridion 

 simile, C. L. Koch, I have been led to believe that it may 

 be only a melanic example of the latter. This, however, 



