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OBSERVED IN 1895. 



By the Rev. 0. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A., F.R.S., &e. 



February llth, 1S96. 



[WITH PLATE.] 



TN my last communication on this subject, published in 

 Vol. XVI. of our Club's Proceedings (p. 92), I 

 was able to bring it up to a rather recent date 

 to about the beginning of May, 1895 and also 

 to include the results of a few days collecting 

 in the New Forest in June. Since that, how- 

 ever, some spiders of considerable interest and 

 rarity have occurred, and on these I will make 

 a few general remarks, following them, as 

 usual, by a systematic list. There has been but little in the past 

 season to make it very noteworthy, so far as my experience has 

 gone, in respect to the abundance or scarcity of spiders, although 

 few seasons have of late been more remarkable than the past one 

 in regard to the irregular distribution of rainfall and drought, cold 

 and heat. We want, however, more workers in this field before 

 any trustworthy conclusions can be arrived at in respect to the 

 abundance or scarcity of spiders. Still, on the whole, I think the 

 past year was a favourable one in this branch of natural history. 



On the 13th of May, 1895, I was fortunate in having a lovely 

 spring day for a search in the water meadows near Warmwell, 



