SPIDERS 



DRASSID^ 



Spiders with eight eyes, situated in two transverse rows. The tracheal openings lie just 

 in front of the spinners. The tarsal claws are two in number, the anterior pair of spinners 

 being set wide apart at the base, and the maxillae are more or less impressed across the middle. 



6. Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer 

 Lydd. 

 Very common under stones, 

 as Drassus lapidicohns. 



7. Scotophaus hlackwallii (Thorell). 

 Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). 

 Also known A dark elongate mouse-grey spider, often 



found wandering about the walls of dwelling 

 and outhouses at night. Known also as Dras- 

 sus sericeus, Blackwall. 



CLUBIONIDiE 



Spiders with eight eyes, situated in two transverse rows. The tracheal openings lie 

 immediately in front of the spinners. The tarsal claws are two in number, but the anterior 

 pair of spinners are set close together at the base ; the maxillae are convex and not impressed 

 across the middle. 



8. Zora spinimana (Sundevall). 



Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). 

 Known also as Hecaerge spinimana or macu- 

 lata. 



9. Cluhiona stagnatilis, Kulczynski. 



Lydd. 

 Known also as C. holosericea, Blackwall. 

 This species is usually fairly common amongst 

 the dry sedge grass and rushes in swampy 

 places. 



10. Cluhiona terrestris, Westring. 



Yalding ; Gravesend (F. P. S.) ; Tunbridge 



WeUs (T. R. R. S.). 



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 amarantha, Blackwall. 



11. Cluhiona reclusa, O. P.-Cambridge. 

 Yalding. 



A rarer species than the last ; usually beaten 

 from foliage and bushes in the summer time. 



12. Cluhiona lutescens, Westring. 

 Tonbridge. 



Rare ; but sometimes fairly abundant where 

 it occurs amongst dry rushes and sedge grass 

 in swampy places. 



13. Cluhiona hrevipes, Blackwall. 

 Yalding, Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). 



Not uncommon amongst foliage in the 

 summer time. 



14. Cluhiona pallidula (Clerck). 

 Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). 



A larger species than any of the above, 

 and usually fairly common amongst bramble 



bushes, where the female makes its egg-cocoon 

 within the folded leaves. Known also as C 

 epimelas, Blackwall. 



15. Cluhiona corticalis (Walckenaer). 

 Sevenoaks. 



Almost as large a species as the last-named. 

 Not common ; under the bark of large elm 

 and other trees in ancient parks. 



1 6. Cluhiona phragmitis, C. L. Koch. 

 Yalding, Tonbridge. 



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 pal- 

 ings, posts, pollard willow trees, etc. Known 

 also as C. deinognatha, O. P.-Cambridge. 



17. Cluhiona compta, C. L. Koch. 

 Gravesend (F. P. S.). 



A very small species, whose abdomen is 

 striped diagonally on each side, similarly to 

 that of C. corticalis. Not uncommon amongst 

 the foliage of bushes and shrubs in the sum- 

 mer time. 



18. Chiracnnthium erraticum (Walckenaer). 

 Yalding. 



Sometimes very common in the folded 

 leaves of the various species of bramble in 

 the summer time. The spider resembles a 

 Cluhionid, but has longer legs and a red 

 stripe down the abdomen. 



19. Agroeca hrunnea (Blackwall). 

 Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). 



Rarely found amongst dead leaves and at 

 the roots of herbage in woods. Known also 

 under Agelena. 



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