88 NEW AND RARE SPIDERS. 



FAM. : HAHNIID.E. 

 GEN. : HAHNIA (C. L. Koch). 



HAHNIA ELEGANS. 



Hdhnia elegans Bl. Cambr., Spid. Dors., p. 69, and Proc. Dors. 

 N.H. and A.F. Club, vol. x., p. 130. 



Although I had met with females of this species in spring and 

 early summer on Bloxworth Heath, on the margins of ponds, and 

 in other localities in the neighbourhood, the first adult males I had 

 seen were several found here on the 26th of August, 1889, by 

 C. 0. P. Cambridge. 



HAHNIA MONTANA. 



Halinia montana Bl. Cambr. Spid. Dorset, p. 70. 

 Abundant in one spot on Bloxworth Heath, both males and 

 females adult, on August 6th, 1890. 



FAM. : THERIDIID.E. 



GEN. : TEUTANA (Sim.) (Theridion Auctt. ad partem.) 

 TEUTANA GROSSA, fig. 1. 



Theridion versutum Blackw. Cambr. " Spid. Dors.," p. 479. 



Theridium grossum C. Koch. Die Arachn. Bd. iv., p. 112, 

 pi. cxl., fig. 321. 



Adult females of this spider were kindly sent to me in 

 December, 1890, by Mr. J. W. Stoddard, by whom they were found 

 in cellars at Bristol. The only previous occurrence in Great 

 Britain is that recorded by Mr. Black wall (near Winchester) in 

 Spid. Great Brit, and Ireland, p. 193, pi. xiv., fig. 124, the 

 specimen there described being a male. Mr. Stoddard tells me 

 that it spins a coarse sheet of web usually across a corner between 

 the ceiling and wall. The cocoon is a loose woolly bag about 

 half-an-inch in diameter, containing 40 50 eggs. 



GEN. : THERIDION (Walck.) 



THERIDION BIMACULATUM. 



Theridion limaculatum, Linn. Cambridge Spid. Dors., p. 91. 

 This pretty spider was found (both sexes) in abundance at the 

 roots and among the stems of mixed herbage at Abbotsbury in 



