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Science and Art Museum, Dublin) in June last as Oligolophus 

 ephippiger, Simon. A very slight inspection convinced me of 

 the incorrectness of this determination, in which Professor 

 Kraepelin (who had also received examples of it from Mr. 

 Carpenter) agreed with me. It appeared to me to be nearly allied 

 to Oligolophus tridens, C. L. Koch, as well as to our very abundant 

 British species, Oligolophus agrestis, Meade, but quite distinct from 

 both. Professor Kraepelin, who meets with the species pretty 

 abundantly near Hamburg, has since described it as a new species, 

 under the name Oligolophus Hansenii. The Professor has also 

 very kindly sent me the specimens he received from Mr. 

 Carpenter as well as some of those found near Hamburg, with 

 which last the Scotch examples quite agree. More recently Mr. 

 Wm. Evans (of Edinburgh), by whom Mr. Carpenter's specimens 

 were found, has sent me several others, well marked and in good 

 condition, from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. The addition 

 of this species to our British list is of considerable interest and 

 importance, as the group is, in its extent, very limited every where, 

 and in Britain only numbers hitherto 24 species ; the number 

 of those as yet recorded in " Europe " being not much more 

 than 50. 



Of the true spiders met with by myself or received in the past 

 year I may particularly mention Lithyphantes corollatus Linn., of 

 which immature examples were recorded in our last year's 

 Proceedings (Vol. XVIL, p. 56, and p. 58) from Bloxworth 

 Heath. Adults of both sexes of this handsome spider were 

 found pretty abundantly by myself and my nephew, F. 0. P.- 

 Cambridge, from the 2nd of April to the 4th of May, 1896, in the 

 same locality as that in which the immature examples had before 

 occurred. 



Two adults of our largest Lycosid (or, popularly, wolf spiders), 

 Trochosa robusta, Sim. were kindly sent to me by our Secretary, 

 Mr. Kichardson, by whom they were found under stones below 

 high-water mark on the shore of the " Fleet," at the " Herbary," 

 Langton Herring, on the 7th of May. This is only the third 



