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1889 anb 1890. 



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

 C.M.Z.S., &c., &c. 



(WITH PLATE.) 



WO years have passed since my last report : Of the 

 first of these years (1889) I have nothing new to 

 science to record, though the season was fairly 

 favourable, and some rare species were found, some 

 of which will be noted presently. The past year 

 (1890) has been a tolerably successful one in respect 

 to spiders, though the generally cold, damp, and sunless character of 

 the season made it anything but a good one in regard to entomology 

 in its wider sense. Seasons of this kind have often proved to be by 

 no means so inimical to spiders as to insects. Dry, hot summers, 

 though they may favour the development of some species, are, on 

 the whole, hurtful to the majority of spiders. Considering, therefore, 

 that our leisure time has been very much engrossed by other 

 matters of greater or less importance, we have reason to be well 

 satisfied with what I have now to record of the past two years' 

 researches. To summarise these I may shortly say that besides a 

 large number of rare and interesting species met with, two are new 

 to Britain and three new to science ; one of the former and one of 

 the latter having been found in. Dorsetshire. I propose only to 



