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front of the falccs, and the female by the form of the genital 

 aperture. The two sexes are much alike in general colour 

 and appearance. 



Micponeta beata, Cambr. 



An adult male, found on the lawn railings at Bloxworth 

 Rectory, by the Rev. R. J. Pickard-Cambridge, in October, 

 1907. This is the first record of this species for Dorset- 

 shire. 



Syedra pholcommoides, Cambr. 



An adult female on the lawn railings, Bloxworth Rectory, 

 October 24th, 1907, by the Rev. R. J. Pickard-Cambridge. 



Gong-ylidiellum pa^anum, Sim., PI. A., Fig. 24. 



Gongv/idit'lliDn paganum, Sim. -Cambr., Proc. Dors. 



N. H. and A. F. Club, Vol. XXII., 1903, p. 155, 



PI. A., Fig. 7. 



An adult male and females, sent to me from County 



Carlow, Ireland, by Mr. D. R. P. Beresford. This is, I believe, 



only the second record of the species as British. 



Erig-one spinosa, Cambr. 



Erigonc spinosa, Cambr., Proc.Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, 

 p. 292, PI. XIII., Fig. 12. 

 ,, vagans, Sim. (Non E. vagans Audouin in 

 Sa\'igny.) Les Arachnides de 

 France, tom. V., p. 530, Figs. 330- 

 331, 1881. 

 It was a great surprise to me to find among other spiders 

 received (^lay, 1908) from Mr. Stainforth, and taken near 

 Hull, both sexes of the very remarkable form of Erigone — 

 E. spinosa, Cambr. This little species is easily distinguish- 

 able from all others of the forms yet known ; it was first 

 found by myself at Cairo in Egypt, afterwards in Palestine, 

 subsequently at Rome, and finally sent to me from Paris by 

 M. Eugene Simon. Since that I have not seen nor heard of 



