114 ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNID A. 



Laseola prona, Menge. 



Euryopis prona, Menge-Cambr., Spid. Dors., 



p. 481. 

 Laseola jucunda, Cambr., Proc. Dors. F. Club, 

 Vol. XXIV., pp. 152, 162, pi. A., fig. 3, 1903, 

 Vol. XXVIII., p. 125, pi. A, figs. 13, 14, 15 

 (1907), and Vol. XXIX., p. 170 (1908). 

 An adult male was brought to me from Bloxworth 

 Heath on May 11, 1912, by A. E. LI. P.-C. 



Crustulina sticta, Cambr. 



Steatoda sticta, Cambr., Spid. Dors., p. 97, and 



Proc. Dors. F. Club, XVIII. , p. 111. 



Theridion stictum, Cambr. -Bl., Spid. G.B.I., 

 p. 196. 

 Several of each sex Avere found in Wicken Fen by Dr. 



Jackson and Mr. W. Falconer early in June, 1912 — 

 " Naturalist," October, 1912, p. 313. 



Linyphia peltata, Wid. 



Linypliia peltata, Wid. -Cambr., Spid. Dors., 



p. 229. 

 Leptyphantes nigrescens, Cambr., Proc. Dors. F. 



Club, XXXIII., pp. 75, 90, pi. A, figs. 11, 



13. 

 The examination of some additional examples of 

 L. nigrescens, including adult females and immature 

 males, has convinced me that L. nigrescens, Cambr. 

 (I.e.) is a melanic form of Linyphia peltata, Wid. I have 

 found in Dorsetshire, Hampshire, and some other 

 counties the normal form of L. p)eltata in fair abundance, 

 but until now have never seen this melanic form of it. 

 Mr. L. A. Carr, however, seems to have met with it 

 commonly in Staffordshire, and to have suspected its 

 identity with L. p)dtata, Wid. 



