THE ARACHNIDA. 105 



" Very rare would denote that one or two specimens in the 

 run of a season would be all that a careful search and open- 

 eye for it would obtain." 



To assist those who may be disposed to collect in this 

 branch of Natural History, it may be well to state the mode 

 of preserving Spiders. Specimens should be put up in small 

 glass tubes filled with spirits of wine, or what is better still, 

 in small bottles having a slight constriction or neck near the 

 mouth, so that the cork can be compressed and the rapid 

 evaporation of the spirit be prevented. 



In the following list it will be seen that of the two tribes 

 of the order Araneidea known to inhabit Great Britain, 

 one only is represented ; of the families making up this tribe 

 nine out of ten are represented (the tenth, however, contains 

 but one British genus and one British species); out of 

 twenty-eight genera composing the families eighteen are 

 represented; and lastly, out of two hundred and seventy 

 species contained in the twenty-eight genera, eighty are 

 represented. 



FAMILY LYCOSID^E. 



GENUS LYCOSA. 



Agretyca. Frequent; among grass and herbage on banks and 



sides of ditches, etc. 



Campestris. Not rare ; in same places as the last 

 Andrenivora. Very rare ; on sandhills. 

 Nivalis. Common ; on sandhills. 

 Rapax. Frequent ; in company with Agretyca. 

 Pieta. Not rare ; on sandhills. 



