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make here a few general remarks on these various captures ; the rest 

 of the paper will .be occupied by systematic and technical details. 

 Among the species captured or brought to my notice in 1889, the 

 most noteworthy were Segestria perfida Walck, from Bristol ; 

 Liocranum celere Cambr., under pieces of rock at Portland on 

 the 26th of April ; Oxyptila Blackwallii Sim. (remarkable from 

 the clubbed hairs with which it is clothed), in a similar situa- 

 tion on the 10th of May. Marpessa pomatia Walck, one 

 of our largest and rarest jumping spiders, together with 

 Walckendera pratensis Bl., were found in Wicken Fen, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, by my nephew ; Agroeca inopina Cambr., on 

 Bloxworth Heath, and Cluliona coerulescens L. Koch, in Bere 

 Wood, by one of my sons, who also met with adult males of 

 Hahnia elegans BL, among water weeds on the 25th of August 

 in a pond on the heath. I had for many years past found females 

 of this spider, but had not before succeeded in finding the males. 

 Among dead leaves in Bere Wood in October I met with a second 

 example of Neriene nefaria Camb., the first (and only other, as yet 

 known) example having been found among grass on the cliff near 

 Smallinouth Sands, Weymouth, during an excursion of our Field 

 Club on the 2nd of July, 1879. Epeiria sdopetaria Clk., occurred 

 near Chickerell on the 20th of May. This is a fine species, locally 

 abundant in some parts of England, but very rarely met with in 

 this county. An adult male of the rare and curiously-formed 

 Walckendera jucundissima Cambr., is the only other capture of 

 1889 which I shall note here. 



Coming now to 1890, a long day in the Isle of Portland, May 31st, 

 yielded us a number of local species, among them being young 

 examples of Neon levis Sim., a pretty little salticid, or jumping spider, 

 not before met with in England ; its habitat is under fragments of 

 rock near Pennsylvania Castle, where also in similar situations we 

 found several examples of both sexes of Walckenaera saxicola 

 Cambr. This very distinct spider is of great rarity ; it was first 

 found near the same spot by myself in July, 1860, and, excepting 

 oiice, on Bloxworth Heath, has not been taken since, until this 



