A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



13. Agroeca brunnea (Blackwall) 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



The egg-cocoon of this species is a familiar 

 object to the field naturalist ; a white silken 

 sac shaped like an inverted wine-glass and 

 hung by the stem to the stalks of rushes, 

 heather, etc. The spider subsequently covers 

 the silk with a layer of mud. 

 13A. Agroeca striata, Kulczynski 

 Shoreham (O.P.-C.) 



14. Zora spinunana (Sundevall) 

 Brighton 



Common everywhere amongst herbage. 



15. C/ubiona phragmitis, C. L. Koch 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



16. Clubiona pallidula (Clerck) 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



17. Clubiona stagnati/is, Kulczynski 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



18. Clubiona rec/usa, O. P. -Cambridge 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



19. Clubiona terrestris, Westring 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



20. Clubiona compta, C. L. Koch 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



21. Chiracanthium erraticum (Walckenaer) 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



Common on the roadsides among bramble 

 leaves. This spider is also known as C. 

 carnifex. 



2 1 A. Micromata virescens (Clerck) 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



ANYPHiENIDiE 



The spiders of this family resemble those of the Clubionida in most respects, except that 

 the tracheal stigmatic openings beneath the abdomen are situated about midway between the 

 genital rima and the spinners, and not as in the last family immediately in front of the 

 spinners. One species only is indigenous to Great Britain, and is very common amongst the 

 foliage of trees in May and June. 

 22. Anyphana accentuata (Walckenaer) 



Hastings (F.P.S.) 



THOMISID^ 



Spiders with eight eyes, situated in two transverse rows, two tarsal claws, and anterior 

 spinners close together at their base. Maxillas not impressed. The crab-like shape and side- 

 long movements of these spiders are the chief characteristic which enable them to be dis- 

 tinguished from the more elongate Drassida and Clubionida. 



23. Philodromus dispar, Walckenaer 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



24. Philodromus aureolus (Clerck) 

 Brighton 



25. Tibcllus oblongus (Walckenaer) 

 Brighton 



Common amongst dry coarse grass on sand- 

 hills and also amongst the rich vegetation in 

 swamps, where the species is as a rule much 

 larger. 



26. Thanatus formicinus, C. L. Koch 

 East Grinstead (Rev. T. R. Stebbing) 



A rare species, taken only in the New 

 Forest previously. 



27. Xysticus cristatus (Clerck) 

 H.astings (F.P.S.) 



28. Xysticus pini (Hahn) 

 East Grinstead (F.P.S.) 



29. Oxyptila praticola (C. L. Koch) 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



30. Oxyptila simplex, O. P.-Cambridge 

 Hastings (F.P.S.) 



ATTID^ 



The spiders of this family may be recognized in a general way by their mode of pro- 

 gression, consisting of a series of leaps, when alarmed. More particularly they may be known 

 by the square shape of the cephalic region and the fact that the eyes are arranged in three 

 rows of 4, 2, 2 ; the centrals of the anterior row being much the largest and usually iridescent. 

 Otherwise these spiders are simply specialized Clubionids, with two tarsal claws and other 

 minor characters possessed in common with members of this latter family. The commonest, 



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