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record of its occurrence in Great Britain. In June, 1896, and 

 again in August, I received from Mr. Linnaeus Greening, of 

 Warrington, adults of both sexes of a fine salticid spider which I 

 am pretty sure is Attus ftoricola, C. L. Koch. Tt was found in 

 tolerable abundance by sweeping among rank herbage, and also 

 by beating stunted birch bushes, in a swampy spot, at Hartford, 

 near Warrington. This is its first record as an English species. 

 From Ireland it has been previously recorded (see Proc. Dors. 

 KH. and A.F. Club, Vol. XVIL, p. 62, 1896). Early in July, 

 1896, I had several days' spider-hunting near Worthing, in 

 Sussex, where my special object was to try and turn up again a pretty 

 salticid which I had found close to Shoreham in some abundance in 

 1871, and thought then to be Attus ftoricola, C. L. Koch. The 

 weather was unfortunately dark, gloomy, cold, and wet each day, 

 so that, although I did meet with the species I was in search of, 

 the examples only three were immature or not well marked. 

 The spot on which I had found them in 1871 was no longer 

 ascertainable ; the whole locality had been cut up into roadways, 

 and rows of houses had been built upon it, so that the place was 

 quite irrecognisable. There is little doubt, however, but that this 

 spider occurs at intervals all along the coast from Shoreham to 

 Worthing. The spot where I found the three examples mentioned 

 was nearer to the latter place, but a genial sunny day is needed to 

 bring them out of their hiding-places. Several other rare spiders 

 were found here, the most remarkable being Agroeca littoralis, F. 

 O. P. Cambr., of which examples had only before occurred at 

 Swanage. Euoplirys cequipes Cambr., GnapJiosa lugubris C. L. 

 Koch, Drassus macer Thor., Steatoda sticta Cambr., and Erigone 

 promiscua Cambr., all rare and local spiders, were also found on 

 the coast near Worthing. I received also from Mr. Gulliver (by 

 whom they were found in the New Forest, near Brockenhurst) 

 an adult female of the fine and rare Pistius truncatus Pall, as well 

 as one of Hyptiotes paradoxus C. L. Koch (see Proc. Dors. N.H. 

 and A.F. Club, XVIL, p. 61) and an adult of each sex of Epeira 

 angulata Clerck, and Epeira scalaris Walck. 





