128 NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 



GEN : DEXDRYPHAXTES (C. L. Koch.) 



DENDRYPH ANTES HASTATUS (C. L. Koch.) 

 Dewlrypltantes Itastatus C. L. Koch, Canibr., " Proc : " Dors. 

 X. II. and- A. Field Club, vol. vi., p. 11. 



An adult female was beaten off the lower boughs of a fir tiee in 

 Morden Park in June, 1888, by F. 0. P. Cambridge. The only 

 other British example recorded is that, noticed in " Proc." Dorset 

 Field Club (1. c., p. 1 and 11), of an adult male found near Xorwich 

 by Mr. James Edwards. This is its first record as a Dorset spider. 



NOTES ON RARE OR LOCAL SPIDERS FOUND, 



MOSTLY IN DORSETSHIRE, DURING 



THE LAST THREE YEARS. 



FAM: DYSDERID.E. 

 GEX : DYSDERA (Latr.) 



Dysdera crocota C. Koch., Cambr., " Spid. Dors.," p. 6. 

 Dr. Blackmore found this fine spider rather abundantly among 

 rubbly chalk in old chalk pits near Salisbury, in September, 

 1888, when both sexes were adult. 



FAM : DRASSID^. 

 GEX : PROSTHESIMA (C. Koch.) 



Prosthesima jiedestris C. L. Koch., Cambr., " Spid. Dors.," p. 

 15, and " Proc." Dorset X. H. and Antiq. F. Club, vol. vi., p. 2. 



I have received this distinct and local species from Colonel Le 

 Grice (Folkestone), in June, 1888, and also more recently from 

 Mr. T. R. Billings from the neighbourhood of Peckham. 



Prosthesima LatreiUii C. L. Koch., Cambr., " Spid. Dors.," p. 

 421. 



I have met with this rare spider again a,t Bloxworth, and Dr. 

 Blackmore has sent it to me also from Salisbury in 1887. 



Prosthesima lotirjipes L. Koch., Cambr., " Spid. Dors.," p. 422. 



An adult male on Bloxworth Heath in the summer of 1888. 

 This is the first I have seen since the year 1878, 



