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I had not seen this pretty, and hitherto very rare, spider for 

 many years until the spring and early summer of 1888, when it 

 was found (both sexes in the adult state) in some abundance by 

 F. 0. P. Cambridge and myself in bogs and swamps at Bloxworth 

 and Hyde by shaking out dead grass, moss, and debris on a cloth. 



GEN: LAS.EOLA (Sim.) 

 LAS^EOLA CORACINA (C. L. Koch.) 



Theridion coracinum C. L. Koch., Cambr., " Spid. Dors.," p. 98 

 (sub. Steatoda). 



At the end of May, 1888, I met with an adult female of this 

 rare spider among grass in a swamp at Morden Park, near 

 Bloxworth. 



GEN: THERIDIOSOMA (Cambr.) 



Theridiosoma argenteolum Cambr., " Spid : Dors :" p. 428 and 

 572. 



A very nearly adult male of this spider was found in a swamp, 

 Morden Park, on September 19th, 1888, a very unusual time 

 for it to be in this stage of growth, unless its final moult is delayed, 

 and the spider continues during winter in an undeveloped state 

 until the following May, when its usual time of becoming adult 

 arrives. 



GEN : PEDANOSTETHUS (Sim.) 



Pedanostetlms neglectiis Cambr. (sub. Neriene), " Spid. Dors.," 

 p. 121. 



An adult male was found by F. 0. P. Cambridge among moss at 

 Bloxworth at the end of August, 1888. This species and its near 

 ally, P. (Neriene) avida (Bl.), have terminal tarsal claws in the 

 female, shewing their affinity to Enoploynatlia (Drepanodus, Menge) 

 and their difference from the numerous other spiders with which 

 they have hitherto been linked in the Family Theridiidce. M. 

 Simon has therefore constituted for them the Genus Pedanostetlius 

 (" Arachn. de France," v. 195), the name Ctenium (Menge), formed 

 for P. livida in (1869), having been already used for a genus of 

 Lepidoptera by Panzer. 



