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|iitre British 



By the Rev. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A., P.R.S., 



&c., &c. 



Plate A. 

 (READ FEBRUARY 13iH, 1889). 



EARLY three years have passed since my last 

 communication to you on spiders. During that 

 period rheumatism and lumbago have very much 

 hindered the long-sustained stooping process so 

 absolutely essential to success in working out the 

 spicier population among moss and other herbage 

 in swamps and such like situations. I have, however, done a 

 little myself, and have received much help from my sons, and 

 especially from my nephew, Frederick 0. P. Cambridge, whose 

 skilful pencil has been more than once employed to illustrate 

 entomology in former volumes of our "Proceedings." A new 

 spider-student has also sprung up (not, I am sorry to say, in our 

 own county, though not far outside it) in Dr. Blackmore, of 

 Salisbury. From him I have received, among numerous other 

 spiders, two fine new additions to the British List Prostliesima 

 rustica (Sim) and Coelotes pdbulator (Sim). The former of these was 

 found, though very rarely, in Dr. Blackmore's own garden in Salis- 

 bury ; the latter under pieces of rock and stone near Alderbury. 

 Dr. Blackmore sent nie several females of this spider the year 



