104: NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDBRg. 



shire, and one from Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire. Three of the 

 species new to Britain occurred in Scotland, and one in Dorsetshire. 



All the above are contained in the following list, Avhich also 

 comprises some other rare species found in Dorsetshire and other 

 localities : — 



AR ANEIDEA. 



DRASSID.E. 



Drassus mtstkjus, sp. n. 



Adult male, length 2| lines. Closely allied to D. troglodytes, 

 C. Koch, but differs among other characters in the eyes of the 

 posterior row being equidistant from each other (taking into 

 consideration the obliquity of the hind-centrals), and the whole 

 group is more closely set together. The interval between the 

 fore-centrals and that between the hind-centrals is almost equal, 

 these four eyes forming a rectangular quadrangle Avhose opposite 

 sides are respectively nearly equal to each other. The hind-centrals 

 are oblique, irregularly oval but scarcely triangular. 



The palpi are very similar to those of D. troglodytes, but the 

 radial apophysis is not so strong nor nearly so greatly dilated at 

 the extremity. The palpal organs are very similar. 



The legs were not in sufficiently good condition to enable me to 

 make any comparison with those of D. troglodytes, and the spider 

 is a much smaller one than those of that species. It is evidently 

 nearly allied to D. concertor Sim., but M. Simon says it is new to 

 him. It is also nearly allied to D. mfuseatus Wcstr., but the 

 position of the eyes is different, and the spider itself is much 

 smaller. 



Several examples of this spider were received from Mr. Morris 

 Young, from Paisley, in February, 1894, captured under bark of 

 fallen fir trees near Paisley, but all were in bad condition, having 

 been evidently first dried and then gummed on card in spirit of 

 wine — a process almost fatal to satisfactory identification — and 

 although the colour was evidently gone it is probably very 

 similar to that of D. troglodytes. In the present instance, 

 however, in spite of its unsatisfactory condition, it seems almost 



