BRITISH ARACHNIDA. Ill 



SYSTEMATIC LIST OP SPIDERS NOTED IN 1896. 



ORDER ARANEIDEA. 



FAM. DRASSID^E. 



DRASSUS MACER. 



Drassus macer, Thor. Proc. Dors. N.H. and A.F. Club, xvi., p. 1 00. 

 An adult male among shingle near Shorcham. It seems hardly 

 yet certain whether this form is a true species or only a variety 

 of Drassus lapidicolens Walck. The chief distinction at present 

 seems to be in the less developed falces and differently dentated 

 fangs of D. macer. 



GNAPHOSA LUGUBRIS. 



Gnaphosa lugulris, C. L. Koch. Spid. Dors., p. 419. 

 Among stones and shingle near Worthing, but none adult. 



AGROECA LITTORALIS. 



Agroeca littoralis, F. 0. P. Cambr. Proc. Dors. N.H. and A.F. 

 Club, xvi., p. 101. 



An adult female among stones on the coast between Worthing 

 and Shoreham. Only previously found at Svvanage. 



FAM. THERIDIID^E. 



STEATODA STICTA. 



Tlieridion stictum, Cambr. Spid. Dors., p. 97. 

 An adult female of the black variety found near Worthing. 



LlTHYPHANTES COROLLATUS. 



Litlnjpli antes corollatus, Linn. Proc. Dors. N.H. and A.F. 

 Club, xvii., pp. 56, 58. 



Adults of both sexes tolerably abundant beneath small, flat, 

 finely-woven webs, spun among very short heather and dwarf- 

 stunted furze close to the ground, and over small depressions in the 

 surface. The earliest adult was taken on April 21, the latest on 

 May 4th. Its chief food appears to be a beetle, which is rather 



