SPIDERS 



15. Clubiona stagnatilis, Kulczynski. 

 Looe. 



Known also as C. holosericea, Blackwall. 



The species is usually fairly common amongst the 

 dry sedge grass and rushes in swampy places. 



1 6. Clubiona terrestris, Westring. 



Liskeard. 



Not uncommon in the summer time, when it 

 may be found wandering about at night on the walls 

 of outhouses, palings, etc. Known also as C. 

 amarantba, Blackwall. 



1 7. Clubiona reclusa, O.P.-Cambridge. 



Liskeard. 



A rarer species than the last ; usually beaten from 

 foliage and bushes in the summer time. 



1 8. Clubiona lutescens, Westring. 



Liskeard. 



Rare ; but sometimes fairly abundant where it 

 occurs amongst dry rushes and sedge grass in swampy 

 places. 



1 9. Clubiona brevipes, Blackwall. 



Liskeard. 

 Not uncommon amongst foliage in the summer time. 



20. Clubiona pallidula, Clerck. 



Liskeard. 



A larger species than any of the above, and usually 

 fairly common amongst bramble bushes, and where 

 the female makes its egg-cocoon within the folded 

 leaves. Known also as C. epimelas, Blackwall. 



21. Clubiona phragmitii, C. L. Koch. 



Liskeard. 



Very common indeed amongst rushes and dry sedge 

 grass in swamps, where the females construct a pure 

 white silken retreat amongst the blades or under the 

 bark of riverside palings, posts, pollard, willow trees, 

 &c. Known also as C. deinognatha, O. P.-Cambridge. 



22. Clubiona compta, C. L. Koch. 

 Mawnan. 



A very small species, whose abdomen is striped 

 diagonally on each side, similarly to that of C. corti- 

 calis, Walckenaer. Not uncommon amongst the 

 foliage of bushes and shrubs in the summer time. 



23. Chiracanthium erraticum, Walckenaer. 



Mawnan. 



Sometimes very common in the folded leaves of 

 the various species of bramble in the summer time. 

 The spider resembles a ' Clubiona,' but has longer legs 

 and a red stripe down the abdomen. Known also as 

 Chiracanthium carnifex (Fabricius). 



24. Liocranum rupicolum, Walckenaer. 



Polperro. 



Not uncommon under rocks and stones. Known 

 also as Liocranum domesticum (Wider), and Clubiona 

 domestica, Blackwall. 



25. Agroeca brunnea, Blackwall. 



Gerrans Bay. 



Rarely found amongst dead leaves and at the 

 roots of herbage in woods. Known also as Agelena 

 brunnea. 



ANYPHAENIDAE 



26. Anyphaena accentuata, Walckenaer. 

 Liskeard. 



Often common on the foliage of oak and other 

 trees. This spider is remarkable for the position of 



the spiracular opening, which lies in the middle of 

 the ventral surface of the abdomen between the genital 

 rima and the spinners, and not, as in the last family, 

 immediately in front of the spinners. Known also 

 under Clubiona. 



THOMISIDAE 



Spiders with eight eyes, situated in two transverse 

 rows, two tarsal claws, and anterior spinners close 

 together at their base. Maxillae not impressed. The 

 crab-like shape and sidelong movements of these 

 spiders are their chief characteristics, enabling them 

 to be easily distinguished, as a rule, from the more 

 elongate Drassidae and Clubionidae. 



27. Phihdromus dispar, Walckenaer. 



Mawnan. 



This spider with its shiny black abdomen, is not 

 uncommon in the summer time amongst foliage, and 

 can sometimes be observed crouching flat upon 

 palings. It is very swift in its movements. 



28. Misumena vatia, Clerck. 



Mawnan. 



This species, one of the largest of the Thomisidae, 

 can be found in the blossoms of various woodland 

 plants, where it crouches amongst the petals on the 



watch for its prey. The colour of the female is 

 yellow, with red lateral slashes ; the male being much 

 smaller and almost black. Known also as Thomisus 

 citreus, Blackwall. 



29. Diaea dorsata, Fabricius. 



Whitsand Bay (G. C. B.). 



A bright green spider with a large dull red-brown 

 central patch on the abdomen ; not uncommon on 

 herbage and amongst flowers. Known also as 

 Thomisus floricolens, Blackwall. 



30. Pbilodromus aureolus, Clerck. 



Mawnan. 



A very abundant species, with usually a dull red- 

 brown abdomen, with yellowish central pattern. It 

 frequents the foliage of trees of all kinds, and especially 

 in the immature condition will outnumber all other 

 species which fall into the umbrella beneath the 

 beating-stick. 



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