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certain that this spider is new to science and quite certainly new 

 to Great Britain. 



Agroeca celans. 



Liocranum celans, Bl. Camljr., Spid. Dors. p. 41. 



Adult females of this rare spider were found near Carlisle Ly the 

 Kev. F. P. Cambridge. 



DICTYNID.E. 

 Dictyna pusilla. 

 Didijna piisiUa, Westr. Cambr., Spid. Dors. p. 420. 

 An adult male, at Bloxworth, in June, 1893. 

 This is only the second record of this species in Dorsetshire. 



Dictyna t a.tens. 

 Diciijna latens, Bl. Spid. Dors., p. 50. 



„ hujuhris, Cambr. Spid. Dors., p. -IGG. 



non. D. Iii(jubri.-<, Cambr. Jouru. Linn. Soc. 

 xi., p. 535. 

 After careful comparison under a microscope of the spider 

 described Spid. Dors. p. 466, with the types of D. Imjuhris (found 

 in Corfu), and a series of D. lafens BL, I have reluctantly come to 

 the conclusion that it is only a rather strongly developed example 

 of the latter. 



Lethia subniger. 

 Letkia subniger, Cambr. Spid. Dors., p. 467. 

 ,, Mengii, Cambr. I.e., p. 52. 

 ,, albUpiraculis, Cambr. I.e., p. 53. 

 ,, puta, Cambr. I.e., p. 53. 

 Examination and comparison under a microscope jirove that the 

 above arc all of one species. 



The shining Avhite scales beneath the fore extremity of the 

 abdomen of L. cdbi.^piranifh do not cover (as was supposed I.e.) 

 the spiracular plates, la't indicate tlie position nf the spi'mialhecto 

 iu coiuicclion with the generative organs. Thi'se scales, so striking 

 in the female spider when first captured, become after a time, when 



