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Tliis curious liitlo ppulcr is fairly almndant in Dorsetshire and 

 many other localities. AVhen Mr. Blackwall, who had originally 

 described it as a six-eyed spider, became aware that it really 

 possessed eight eyes, he transferred it to the genus Walc7ie7iaem. 

 More recently M. Simon, in breaking up that group, included it 

 with some other species in his genus Prosoponcus ; but it seems to 

 me quite di.^tinct from those with which M. Simon has linked it 

 and to require a genus to itself, no other spider appearing to come 

 near it. Under these circumstances the original genus formed for 

 it by ]\rr. Blackwall naturally revives, even though one of 

 his characters for it be expunged. I do not believe that the 

 female, of which a figure is given here, has been either described 

 or figured hitherto. This sex is similar to the male in colours and 

 general characters, but is destitute of the elevated caput. 



Walckenaera capito. 

 Erigone capito, "Westr. Aran. Suec, p. 213. 

 Wdlclcenaera capiio, Westr , Cambr. Proc. Dors. N.H. and 

 Antiq. Field Club, vol. x., p. 119, pi. A, fig. 7. 

 ,, ,, Sim. Arachn. de France, vol. v., p. 8'23. 



An adult male, the second example only as yet recorded in Great 

 Britain, was sent to me from Paisley-, Scotland, by Mr, Morris 

 Young, by whom it was found in September, 1893, among over- 

 hanging grass and herbage on a bank near that town. The other 

 recorded example was found under a stone near Ringstead, Dorset, 

 by the Rev. F. P. Cambridge, in October, 1888. 



EPEIRID.E. 

 Epeira alsine. 

 Kpeira aldne, "Walck. Cambr., Spiders Dors., p. 530. 

 Adult females of this very handsome species were found })y 

 ]\Ir. Linnaeus Greening, of Warrington, at Chattel is, Cuaibridge- 

 shiie, in the autumn of 1892. The only previously known British 

 localities were Tring, in Buckinghamshire, and Bloxworth, Dorset- 

 shire. It is thus widely dispersed though rare. 



