ON KJi\V ANJ) RARE BRITISH SflDEUS. 11 



OXYPTILA SIMPLEX, Ccimlr. (Spid. Dors., p. 324). 



After an iutorval of several years, dining which I have not 

 soon a single specimen, I have to-day (June 13, 1881) found an 

 exceedingly well marked adult male on my lawn, at present the 

 only known British locality for it. 



FAM. SALTICID^E. 



GENUS SALTICUS, Latr. (ad partem). 

 SALTICUS FORMICARIUS, Walclc. (Cambr. Spid. Dors., p. 568). 



Dr. Ilornor, of Tonbridge, kindly sont to mo in a living state 

 an adult female of this very rare spider, found by himself in 

 September, 1882, secreted in a hollow bramble stem, at East- 

 bourne, Sussex. 



DENDRYP u ANTES, C. L. Koch. 

 DENDHYPIIANTES HASTATUS, C, Z. Koch. 



,, Araneus hastatus Clerck, Sv. Spindl. p. 115.pl. 



5. Tab. 11. 



An adult male of this species was forwarded to me among 

 many other spiders from the neighbourhood of Norwich, by Mr. 

 James Edwards, by whom it was found on a fir tree. This is its 

 first record as a British spider. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



FAM. THERIDIID^. 



GENUS NERIENE, Bl. 

 NERIEVE INERRANS, sp. n, PI. 1. fig. M. 



Adult male, length 1 line. 



The cepludo-thorax is of thoorlinary oval form ; the profile from 

 the anterior eyes to the hinder margin forms a nearly even 

 curve, the occiput being slightly gibbous ; an 1 the height of the 

 clypeus (which is nearly vertical to the plane of the cephalo- 

 thorax) is equal to half that of the facial space. The normal 

 indentations aie not very strongly marked, beiug chiefly iudi- 



