NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 113 



Tegenaria domestica Bl : "Brit, and Irish Spid." p. 163, pi. xi., 

 fig. 105. 



An adult male of this spider was sent to me (some time before his 

 death) by the late Mr. T. B. Kemp- Welch, by whom it was found 

 between Bournemouth and Poole. This is its only record as yet 

 within the county of Dorset. 



CCELOTES TABULATOR (Sim). 



PI. A, fig. 2. 



Codotes pabulator Sim., Arachnides de France, torn, ii,, p. 34. 



Adult female, length 5 to 5 lines; male, 4J. 



This spider is very nearly allied to Ccelotes atropos ( Walck.) (Spid. 

 Dors : p. 60), which it resembles closely in size and general 

 appearance. So far, however, as concerns the examples that I have 

 yet seen, it seems to be on the whole rather smaller. The colours, 

 though similar, are differently distributed ; in C. pabulator the 

 dark colouring of the abdomen is more diffused, leaving scarcely 

 any pattern visible excepting an indistinct pale longitudinal stripe 

 along the middle of the fore part and a series of more or less distinct 

 dull yellowish angular bars or chevrons on the hinder half. The 

 sides and under side are also less thickly marked and mottled with 

 black than the upper side. In all the examples I have seen of C. 

 atropos the pale stripe on the fore part of the upper side of the 

 abdomen is replaced by a well defined, long, tapering black stripe. 

 The palpi of the male also bear a close general resemblance to 

 those of C. atropos, but the apophysis on the outer side of the 

 cubital joint has the angular prominences on its upper side far less 

 strong and its termination rather more obliquely pointed. 



Found by Dr. Blackmore, of Salisbury, underneath pieces of stone 

 near Alderbury, Wiltshire, and adults of both sexes were bred by 

 him from thence in June, 1888. The occurrence of this Alpine 

 species in this part of England is curious, Mons. Simon says that 

 it inhabits Alpine meadows at 1,800 metres height. 



Dr. Blackmore tells me that the snare of this spider is rather 

 like, though smaller than that of Agelena labyrinthica, without the 

 external portion of the latter's snare, the tube extending some 8 or 9 



