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past year ; a subsequent day at Portland, when the Dorset Field 

 Club met there (July 16), produced another specimen of Neon 

 levis. On the 30th of May we found in a small glen running up 

 through the iron-sandstone rock at Abbotsbury spiders unusually 

 abundant among the coarse grass and herbage, and among them 

 many examples of Oxyptila simplex Cambr., hitherto only found, and 

 that very rarely for some years past, on or near the Kectory lawn 

 at Bloxworth. Drassus pubescens C. Koch, was also found at 

 Abbotsbury, as well as (in great abundance) the pretty little 

 Theridion bimaculatum Linn, in all stages of growth, many of 

 both sexes being adult. Two rare species of Liocranum (L. celans 

 BL, and L. celere Cambr.), were also found in 1890, the former in 

 January among moss, near Bloxworth, the latter among heather. 

 Another spider of greater popular interest has turned up, 

 new to Dorset, Argyroneta aquatica Clk. (though I have always 

 suspected its existence there) ; it was found abundantly among 

 water weeds on the banks of the river in the Stoborough meadows, 

 near Wareham, and, later on, in a pond on Bloxworth heath by 

 C. 0. P. Cambridge while hunting for shells. I have abo received 

 from Mr. T. W. Stoddart, of Bristol, specimens of Teutana grossa 

 C. L. Koch, a fine species of the family Tlieridiidte : these were found 

 by him in a cellar, where they appear to be not unfrequent ; hitherto 

 it has only been met with once in England, by Mr. Black wall, 

 many years ago near Winchester. A fine example of Epeira 

 angulata Clerck, a rare and local species, was also sent to me 

 from near Bovey Tracey, in Devonshire, by Miss Lilian Gould, 

 who found it towards the end of August, 1890, in its large 

 orbicular snare woven in a furze bush. On the 25th of June 

 we found specimens of a rare and curious species in a swamp 

 near Hyde only a second British locality for it Tlieridiosoma 

 argenteolum Cambr. This little spider, or one very nearly 

 allied, has had a good deal written about it lately by an American 

 author, Dr. . McCook, who attributes to it, from his own 

 observations, a very singular habit. The American spider spins 

 an imperfect orbicular snare ; this it holds taut by a kind 



