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extending the limits of our district, we are able to record twelve. 

 Two already published records concern us ; as long ago as 1861 

 Lord Avebury published important observations on a false-scorpion 

 probably one of the species of Chernes here listed found in 

 numbers under some planks which were lying on a hot-bed in the 

 kitchen garden at the High Elms, Down ; and, in 1869, S. J. 

 Mclntire referred to a " Chelifer " found in a brewery at Deptford, 

 but one cannot identify the creature from the particulars given. 

 The present writer will gladly examine specimens for any Member 

 or Associate of the Union, who may care to send them to him at 9, 

 Queen's Road, Bromley, Kent. 



CHELIFERID^E. 



1. Gheiridium museorum, Leach. Catford, in a house (B. T. 



Lowne, 1906) ; Shoreham, in a cart shed (H. W. K., 1906) ; 

 West Wickham, under bark of an old elm (H. W. K., 1907). 



2. Chernes nodosus, Schr. South Norwood, on leg of a fly in a house 



(H. Hill, 1906.) 



3. Chernes cimicoides, Fabr. West Wickham, Hayes, and near 



Bromley ; under bark of old trees (H. W. K., 1905-6.) 



4. Chernes panzeri, C. L. Koch. West Wickham, among debris at 



foot of an old elm (H. W. K., 1906). 



5. Chernes scorpioides, Herm. Beckenham (Elmer's End), plentiful 



in a rubbish heap (F. W. Wilson, 1902). New to Britain. 



6. Chernes dubius, Camb. Cudham Valley, under firmly embedded 



stones on a wooded hill-side (H. W. K., 1905). 



7. Chernes wideri, C. L. Koch. West Wickham, under bark of 



an old oak (H. W. K., 1905). 



OBISIIDJE. 



8. Roncus lubricus, L. Koch. Keston, under a stone (H. W. K., 



1901). Greenwich, under bricks in an old garden (F. W. 

 Wilson, 1903). New Chelmsfield, in cavity of a potato- 

 just removed from the earth (H. D. Hewitt, 1903). 



9. Obisium museorum, Leach. Keston, West Wickham, Down, 



etc. ; under stones and among dead leaves. 



CHTHONIID^E. 



10. Chthonius tetrachelatus, Preys. Greenwich, Catford, Bromley, 



Eynsford, etc.; under stones and rubbish, often in old gardens. 



11. Chthonius tenuis, L. Koch. Cudham, under a flint in a wood 



(H. W. K., 1905). 



12. Chthonius rayi, L Koch. Common ; under stones, etc. 



