NOTES ON BRITISH SPIDERS. II 



question ; but with respect to spiders there are exotic species of 

 Epeira which have occasional varieties where the ordinary 

 abdominal marking or pattern exhibits a tendency to obliteration 

 on the whole of the upper surface excepting a large triangular 

 patch on the hinder half. On this patch the pattern becomes 

 intensified, and sharply and strongly defined like the similar 

 patch in E. pyramidata. 



EPEIRA ANGULATA, Clerck. 



Araneus angulatus, Clk. Spid. Dors. p. 270 ; also Proc. Dors. 

 N.H. and A.F. Club, XVI., p. 116, 1895, pi- B, fig- 12- 



Adult and immature, both sexes, including several of the black 

 and white variety noted 1. c. supra. The latter, however, were not 

 adult. Perhaps the adult form never retains this very remarkable 

 distribution of colour ? The above were received from Brocken- 

 hurst, New Forest, from Mr. Charles Gulliver, in September, 1896. 



FAM. THOMISID^E. 

 OXYPTILA SANCTUARIA, Cambr. 

 Oxyptila sanctttaria, Cambr. Spid. Dors., 319. 

 Adult males have again occurred at Bloxworth Rectory in 

 August and September, 1898. 



PHILODROMUS CLARKII, Bl. 

 Philodromus Clarkii, Bl. Spid. Dors., 539. 



ntfus, Walck, Cambr. (Proc. Dors. N.H. and 

 A.F. Club, 1895, Vol. XVI., p. 126, pi. A, 

 fig. i). 



Kulczynski, Hungarian Spiders. Tom. I., 



p. 109, pi. iv., p. 1 6. Simon Aran. de Fr. 

 II., p. 287. 



Kulczynski gives (I.e. supra.) P. rufus t Walck, as identical 

 with P. Clarkii. Bl. I have never seen a type of P. Clarkii, Bl., 

 but on carefully comparing Mr. Black wall' 8 description of it with 

 my type of P> rufus, Walck Cambr,, and with French types 

 received from M. Simon of P. mfm, Walck Simon, I have come 



