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where, in company with my nephew, Rev. F. P. Cambridge, we 

 met with the fine and local Trocliosa spinipafpis, F. P. Cambr., in 

 fair abundance under bits of old boards and at the roots of water 

 weeds ; and among other good things we also turned up Troxochrus 

 ignolilis, Cambr. (which I had not seen for some years), as well as 

 Banjpliyma pratensis, Bl., in some abundance, and a few examples 

 of Oxyptila simplex, Cambr. About this time also we met with 

 adults of both sexes of a hitherto rare and rather doubtful species, 

 Leptyphantes Mengii, Kulcz., in Hyde Bog, Blox worth. In company 

 with these were a few examples of the rare Microneta coniyera, 

 Cambr., and Pedanostethus arundi?ietus, Id. On the 9th of June my 

 nephew found Theridiosoma aryenteolum, Cambr., in the water 

 meadows near Warmwell, and I also met with it myself in Morden 

 Bog, Bloxworth, both being new localities for this species. On 

 the Chesil Beach, on the 14th of June, I found both sexes adult of 

 Pedanostethus obscurus, Menge, as well as a single example of 

 Oxyptila Blackwallii, Sim., and an immature example of Drassus 

 minor, Cambr., of which last the male is still unknown. On the 

 loth of July my son, A. TV. P. Cambridge, came across an 

 adult male of a very curious and rare spider at the College, 

 Weymouth, Scytodes thoracica, Latr. This is only the third or 

 fourth recorded occurrence of the species in England, and the first 

 occurrence of the male sex. It is, as a rule, a house-spider, and 

 might very probably be found more frequently in our towns on the 

 south coast of England if looked for or noted a little carefully. At 

 page 116 and p. 125, Vol. XVI. of our Proceedings, in my 

 last paper I noted the occurrence of Hyptiotes paradoxus, 

 C. L. Koch, in the New Forest, in August, 1894, and also 

 in the month of June in the following year ; on the latter 

 occasion it was in tolerable abundance, but all the examples 

 were immature ; later on (July 18th) a toilsome search of several 

 hours proved fruitless, when just as I was about to give it up in 

 despair a dense thicket of whitethorn, blackthorn, and other under- 

 growth produced me several adults of both sexes, though at the 

 expense of an umbrella, and the tearing of sundry articles of cloth- 



