NOTES ON BRITISH SPIDERS. ? 



An adult male on the porch of Bloxworth Rectory, May zyth, 

 1898. This is the second occurrence only of this distinct species 

 in Britain ; the first example having been found in a swamp 

 near Wareham, on May zyth, 1895. 



TMETICUS REPROBUS, Cambr. 

 Ncriene reproba, Cambr. Spid. Dors., p. 431. 

 Adults of both sexes, from Mr. W. Evans, near Edinburgh, 

 November, 1897. 



BARYPHYMA PRATENSIS, Bl. 



Walckenaera pratensiS) Bl. Cambr., Spid. Dors., p. 502. 

 An adult male, from Cadney, Lincolnshire (Rev. E. A. W. 

 Peacock.) 



(?) STYLOCTETOR BROCCHA, L. Koch. 



En'gonc broccha, L. Koch. Zeits. des Ferdinandeums, II., 

 Naturwiss Abtheil, p. 226. 



Entdecara broccha, L. Koch, Carpenter, Irish Nat., Vol. vii., 

 1898, p. 164. 



An adult male described and figured by Mr. Carpenter (1. c. 

 supra) does not sufficiently agree with types of Erigone broccha, 

 L. Koch, received from Dr. L. Koch, to convince me that it is 

 identical with this last, though probably nearly allied ; nor does 

 it seem to me to be the Styloctetor broccha, L. Koch Simon, 

 described and figured by M. Simon in his " Araneides de 

 France," V., p. 739, and which is probably different from 

 E. broccha, L. Koch. Mr. Carpenter's spider is remarkable from 

 the chitinous texture of the spiracular plates, which appears to 

 suggest their use as a part of a stridulating arrangement. 

 E. broccha, L. Koch, has very similar spiracular plates, as also 

 (but less strongly marked) has another allied species, Styloctetor 

 penicillata, Westr. (Neriene corticea, Cambr.). Mr. Carpenter's 

 spider was found at Slieve Donard, Mourne Mountains, Ireland. 

 Its supposed stridulating organ is figured and described in 

 " Nat. Science," May, 1898, XII., p, 319. 



