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warm greenhouses. One or two examples, however, have been 

 found at Kew during the past year out of doors, so it may yet 

 become a more correctly-termed "naturalized" spider. The 

 total number of true spiders (Araneidea) up to the present time 

 sent to me from Kew by Mr. Nicholson, and undoubtedly British, 

 is 121, besides 8 species of Harvestmen Phalangidea. 



Another correspondent, the Rev. E. A. W. Peacock, of Cadney 

 Vicarage, near Brigg, Lincolnshire, has sent me, during the 

 past year, a very large number of Arachnida from that neigh- 

 bourhood, comprising 135 species of true spiders and eleven 

 Harvestmen. Among the former were examples of both sexes 

 of Diplocephalus (Plesiocraents) speciosus, Cambr., the second 

 occurrence only of this spider ; the female being new to science. 

 Linyphia impigra, Cambr., was also among the Lincolnshire 

 collections. Mr. W. M. Webb, of Brentwood, sent to me from 

 Fulham, Putney, West Kensington, and Ashdown Forest a small 

 collection, which included, however, only one species of interest, 

 Dysdera crocota, C. L. Koch. Another spider of (hitherto) great 

 scarcity and much interest, being the largest of the group to 

 which it belongs, as well as almost the largest known British 

 spider Trochosa cinerea, Fabr., has turned up in abundance on 

 the banks of the Severn (in N. Wales, I believe). Examples of 

 both sexes (adult) were sent to me in August last by Mr. Linnaeus 

 Greening, of Warrington. From Mr. Charles Gulliver, of 

 Brockenhurst, I have received specimens at diiferent ages of 

 Epeira angulata, Clk. ; among them are several (but none quite 

 adult) of a remarkable white and black variety (figured in 

 Vol. XVL of our Proceedings, pi. B., fig. I2A., 1895). I have 

 myself found specimens of this variety in the New Forest, but all 

 the examples were immature. It is possible that the variation in 

 colour and markings may only belong to the immature form. 

 The Rev. J. Hull has sent me numerous spiders from the 

 neighbourhood of Carlisle, one among them being the female of 

 Sintula indecora, Cambr. This spider appears to be (according to 

 Professor Kulczynski) the female of Mr. Blackwall's very remark- 

 able species Neriene cornigera. 



