ON NEW AND RARE SPIDERS 



FOUND IN DORSETSHIRE DURING THE PAST TWELVEMONTHS. 



By Rev. 0. P. CAMBRIDGE, M.A., C.M.Z.S., 



|ATHER more than a year has elapsed since the publi- 

 cation of " Spiders of Dorset," by the " Dorset 

 Natural History Society and Antiquarian Field Club." 

 During [this interval some of my leisure moments have been 

 occupied in endeavouring to add to the very large number of 

 spiders up to that tim e recorded in the county, and, if possible, 

 to increase our knowledge of those already known. I should 

 remark that during the interval mentioned I have been more 

 than usually occupied in other matters, so that the leisure 

 devoted to Natural History has been less than for several years 

 past ; still I have now to record the addition of nine species to 

 our list of Dorset Spiders ; three of these were new to science, 

 and have been described and figured in the Annals and Mag. 

 N.H. for 1882. Besides these additions to our County list, I 

 have succeeded in discovering the adult males of several other 

 spiders of which the females only have been known to me before. 

 One of these (Philodromuselegans, Bl.) a very fair sized and remark- 

 ably handsome spider occurs, in some seasons, in abundance in our 

 heath districts during September and October, but all immature. 

 By the end of October some of the females usually become adult, 

 though so late as the middle of November I have always found 

 the males still immature. 



At this period both sexes disappear, and never having 

 (until this season) seen anything of them afterwards, it has 



