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ing. This curious and rare spider makes its snares among the dead 

 lichen-covered twigs of almost impenetrable bushes of blackthorn 

 and whitethorn, and is most difficult to obtain without getting right 

 into the middle, underneath the thickest part of the bushes. 

 Leptyphantes corollatus, Linn., C. Koch, recorded as new to Britain 

 at p. 122, Vol. XVI. of our Proceedings, has since again occurred 

 at various times, and in some abundance, in August and September 

 last, in the same district at Bloxworth, but all immature, and all 

 were found where the heath had been burnt two years before. It 

 is believed that the buining of the heather has some close con- 

 nection with the subsequent frequent occurrence on such spots of 

 a moth (Phycita carbonariella), which is, excepting on such burnt 

 spots, always of rare occurrence, but whether there is any 

 connection of the kind in regard to the occurrence of the spider I 

 cannot say. It seems, however, strange that after so many years' 

 past searching on this part of the heath without ever finding it, 

 the spider should just now be rather common and easily found on 

 the burnt parts, and on those alone, so far as we have yet met with 

 it. On August 23rd I found an adult male of the rare Pedano- 

 stethus negledus, Cambr., among herbage in a wood. Only one 

 example has yet been recorded of the still rarer female of this 

 species. (Proc. Dors. N. H. and A. F. Club, Vol. XV., p. 206.) 

 One of the best captures of the season, Attus floricola, C. Koch, 

 was made in Ireland by Mr. G. H. Carpenter. Some spiders 

 recorded by myself many years ago as A. floricola, from near 

 Shoreham, in Sussex, appear to be of another species altogether, 

 and identical with Attus mancus, Thor. This is, therefore, the 

 first authentic occurrence of the true A. floricola as British. 

 Among some other spiders kindly collected for me in the New 

 Forest since I was there myself in July, 1895, by Mr. Gulliver (a 

 woodman, but a most intelligent and successful entomologist) were 

 examples of Hasarius arcuatus, Clk., and one of the exceedingly- 

 scarce Pistius truncatus, Pall., the latter a not quite adult male. 

 Mr. W. Evans, of Edinburgh, from whom I have received so many 

 rarities from Scotland during the past few years, kindly sent me in 



