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+ Fodura ci?t^u/a. Tempi.); Tomocerus fridentiftrus, Tullb. 

 ( = Podura pIttmbea,Titm'^\.); Heteromiirus ftitidus (Tempi.); 

 Entomobrya nivalis (L.), ( = Podura nigromaailata, Tempi.) ; 

 £. albocincta (Tempi.) ; Isototna viridis, Bourl. ( = P. Jttli- 

 ginosa. Tempi.); /. palustris (Miill)., { = P- stagnomm^ 

 Tempi.); Aclwrntes viaticus 'L.), { = dubius, Tempi.); 

 Anoiira niuscoru7n (Tempi.). In recent years, Tomocerus 

 plumbeus (L.), Podura ai/uatica, L., and Papiritis orfiatus, 

 Lubb., have been found near Belfast. All of these are com- 

 mon and well-known insects, but there can be no doubt that 

 diligent study of the Aptera in Ulster would be repaid by 

 the discovery of many scarce species, and, in all probability, 

 of some forms new to science. 



G. H. C. 



Arachnida. 



Araneida. — It was a Belfast naturalist, Robert 

 Templeton, who, in the early decades of the nineteenth 

 century, was the first to attempt a systematic study of Irish 

 Spiders. His MS. " History of the Irish Arachnida " 

 was incorporated in Blackwall's well-known Ray Society 

 Monograph, 1 and his collections were largely made in his 

 own grounds of Cranmore, now included in the city of 

 Belfast. The study of spiders in Ireland remained, after 

 Templeton's death, neglected for many years, until another 

 Belfast naturalist, Thomas Workman, whose recent lamented 

 death is still mourned by his colleagues, began his laborious 

 and fruitful researches into this group of Arachnids. He 

 published in 1880 a list of 125 Irish species,- of which by 

 far the greater number were obtained in the counties of 

 Antrim and Down. Of the 225 Irish species that are 

 enumerated in Carpenter's recent list,^ 105 are recorded 

 from those two counties, and 150 from the province of 

 Ulster. 



1 J. Blackwall.— A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and 

 Ireland. London (Ray Society), 1861-4. 



2 T. Workman. — A Contribution towards a List of Irish Spiders. 

 Entomolooist, vol. xiii, 1880, pp. 125-130. Irish Spiders. Proc. Belfast 

 Nat. Hist, and Phil. Soc, 1878-9 and 1879-80, pp. 267-282 and plate. 



3 G. H. Carpenter. — A List of the Spiders of Ireland. Proc. R. Irish 

 Acad. (3), vol. V, 1898, pp. 128-210. 



