126 ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNIDS. 



Examples of both sexes of a spider evidently nearly 

 allied to Phyllonethis instabilis, Cambr., were found on 

 Ben Nevis by Dr. Jackson in July, 1913. Comparison 

 of the two, however, proves them to be quite distinct, 

 and that the Ben Nevis examples are Theridion 

 bellicosum, Sim., given by M. Simon, Arachn. de Fr., 

 I.e. supra, as a synonym of Theridion lepidum, Walck. 

 This synonym, however, seems to be doubtful. It is 

 pretty certain that the Ben Nevis examples are Simon's 

 T. bellicosum, and that Dr. Jackson's discovery of them 

 is their first record as a British species. I have received 

 examples of the female from Rev. J. E. Hull, taken on 

 the Cheviots, Scotland, in 1912. 



Lithyphantes corollatus, Sim. 



Lithyphantes corollatus, Sim. -Cambr. ; Proc. Dors. 



F. Club, Vol. XVI., p. 122, 1895, and in several 



succeeding vols., XVII., XXI., and XXVI. 



This very distinct and pretty species has been found 



in some abundance on Bloxworth Heath in the past year, 



1913, both sexes, adult and immature, late in the month 



of September, by my sons A. W. P.-C. and A. E. LI. P.-C. 



Teutana grossa, C. L. Koch. 



Teutana grossa, C. L. Koch-Cambr. Proc., Dors. 



F. Club, 1891, Vol. XII., p. 88. 



Two females, not yet quite adult, were sent to me 

 from North Devon in October, 1913, by the Rev. A. E. 

 Eaton, by whom they were found in overhauling the 

 contents of a lumber room. Several years ago a female 

 was sent to me, found by Mrs. Haig Thomas at Grange, 

 near Wareham. There seemed at the time a possibility 

 that this example might have been imported from the 

 Continent, as Mrs. Thomas had recently been travelling 

 there ; but subsequent enquiry made it appear much more 

 probable that it was an indigenous specimen, and, if so, 

 it is the only one as yet recorded for Dorsetshire. 



