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methylated spirit of wine might easily be filled with Spiders, 

 and sent to me as occasion offered. 



I presume that all our members have by this time received 

 their copies of " Spiders of Dorset," where, in the introduction, 

 the few necessary hints on collecting and preserving Spiders are 

 shortly detailed. 



LIST OF SPIDERS FOUND. 



FAMILY THEBIDIID.E. 



MELANOGASTER, C. L. Koch., Spiders of Dorset, p. 478. 



An adult male was found on a furze bush on Bloxworth Heath, 

 June 13, 1881 ; one example only (a female) had previously 

 been recorded as British, found, also, by myself at Lyndhurst in 

 1858. 

 THEHIDION PICTUM, ffahn., Spiders of Dorset, p. 476. 



A male, not quite mature, of this handsome Theridion was 

 found on the lawn railings at Bloxworth Eectory by my son 

 Charles Owen, June 7th, 1882. 



NERIENE EXCISA, Cambr., Spiders of Dorset, p. 487. 



Adults of both sexes were found among rushes and grass in a 

 swamp near Bloxworth, in September, 1881. Up to this time 

 the only known examples were found in Northumberland. 



NERIENE LAPIDICOLA, Thor. ( = N. rufipes Bl.), Spiders of 

 Dorset, p. 489. 



Three adult females were found among rushes in a swamp 

 near Bloxworth on the 22nd of November, 1881. I had never 

 before seen an example of this fine Neriene. 



