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remarks on the formation of New Specie 

 PLATE I. 



By tho Rev. O. P. CAMBRIDGE, M.A. 



INGE my last communication, now just two years 

 ago (Proc. Dors. N.H. & A.F. Club, vol iv., p. 

 147), but few additions have been made either 

 to our Dorset or to the British List of Spiders. 

 This is partly owing to my own leisure for field 

 work having been since then much shortened, 

 and my district having become pretty thoroughly worked out ; 

 but chiefly, I think, it is due to the study and collecting of the 

 Arancidca being still at a comparatively low ebb among our 

 British Naturalists. I have, however, now to record and 

 describe two species, which I believe to be new to science. 

 These belong to the genus Neriene, Bl. ; one was found 

 by myself at Bloxworth, the other by my nephew (F. 0. P. 

 Cambridge) at Mawnan, in Cornwall. I have also to 

 record the occurrence, for the first time as British, of a 

 Salticid Spider, Dendryphantes hastatus, Clk. This fine 

 addition to the British fauna was kindly sent to me 

 from the neighbourhood of Norwich by Mr. James 

 Edwards, in 1882. It was found by him on a fir tree, and as 

 this situation appears to be that in which it is usually 

 found in Germany (where it is an abundant spider), I should 

 confidently expect to find it in the district in which we are now 

 jnet, where waste ground and the Scotch fir are so abundant. 



