Mr. J. l^Iackwall on /^puhrs frotn Upper Canada. 421) 



Tlie s|)ccinu'ii just dcscrila'd i.s '' the beautit'ul now (Joat- 

 «ucker" ol'whicli Mr. Sharpe says he is not aware that 1 liad 

 jjublished any descrintion*. I can, however, assure him tliat 

 tlie description ot" this line hird was written more tlian twelve 

 months a^o ; but I think it ri_i:;ht to make him aware that I 

 liave deferred its pubHcati<>n until tiie present opportunity. 



-My young friend Mr. Sharpe seems e(iually anxious to be 

 made aeipuiinti'd with the fact whether 1 iiail published on 

 anotlier Madagascar bird, of which he says, I "was inclined 

 to consider it undescribed" — an opinion which ^Ir. Sharpe him- 

 self once entertained ; but he afterwards kindly informetl me 

 that it might be {'ossi/pJin inwrina of Dr. 1 lartlaub, though he 

 at the same time pointed out some ditfi'renees that existed be- 

 tween it and Dr. llartlaub's description. These ditferences he 

 still refers to in his paper, and also further states tiiat he 

 " cannot guarantee the absolute correctness of his identifica- 

 tion." i'rom these remarks I am led to infer that it may i/et 

 be an unnamed species, as we both formerly considered it ; 

 and, should our conjecture hereafter prove to be right, then I 

 would venture to propose that it should be designated as 



Cossypha Sharpei, G. R. Gr. 

 Cossypha imerina, Shai-pe nee Hartl. in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 316, 



where copious descriptions arc given of several phases that 

 the bird in question undergoes : these, therefore, need not be 

 repeated here. 



The chief reason for referring to this trivial matter is to 

 satisfy ^Ir. Shaq)e that I had not hitherto published or even 

 written in reference to this bird. 



LIII. — Nutice of Spiders captured by Miss Hunter in Montreal^ 

 Upper Canada, icith DescrijHions of Species supjwsed to be 

 new to Arachnologists. By John Blackwall, F.L.S. 



Tribe Octonoculina. 



Family Lycosid.e. 



Genus Lycosa, Latr. 



Lycosa canadensis J n. sp. 



Length of an immature female -^ of an inch ; length of 

 the cephalotliorax -jV, breadth tV ; breadth of the abdomen V^ ; 



* I'loc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. ol7. 



