on 

 or 



in 1898. 



By Rev. 0. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A., F.R.S., &c. 



Eead March 9th, 1899, 



[PLATE A.] 



past year 1898 has been more prolific in the 

 production of materials for record than the 

 previous year, 1897, when (as I remarked to 

 our Club at its meeting on 2ist March, 

 1898) there was not, owing to various 

 circumstances, sufficient to justify my usual 

 annual pronouncement on the spiders of the 

 foregoing season. I would remark here that 

 the materials for the present record are 

 mainly due to the exertions and kindness of several friends. 

 Being year by year less able to face the fatigues of regular 

 field-work, it is naturally a source of much gratification to find 

 others, younger ones, coming on and taking up the running 

 which I am getting too old and " rheumaticky" to keep up. In 

 one respect, however, I confess to disappointment, and that is 

 that, " charm I never so wisely," I have never yet succeeded in 



