6 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on British Spiders. 



Neriene excisa, Cambr. 



Neriene excisa, Oambr. Spiders of Dorset, p. 487, and Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxvii. p. 440, pi. Ivi. no. 29. 



Adult males of this veiy distinct species were found in a 

 swamp near Bloxwortli by Mr. F. M. Campbell on the 8th of 

 September 1881 ; and subsequently both sexes have been met 

 with on several occasions on the same spot by myself. This 

 is its first record in the south of England, the typical examples 

 having been found some years ago and kindly sent to me 

 from Northumberland by Mr. James Hardy, of Old Cambus. 



Neriene uncata, Cambr. 



Neriene tmcata, Cambr. Spiders of Dorset, p. 433 ; and Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxviii. p. 546, pi. sivi. fig. 17. 



On the 16th of September, 1881, and again in November 

 of tlie same year, I found adults of both sexes of this fine 

 species, the females in considerable abundance, in a swamp 

 near Bloxwortli. 



Neriene formidabilis J Cambr. 

 Neriene formidabilis, Cambr. Spiders of Dorset, p. 135. 



On the 22nd of November, 1881, I met with an adult 

 female of this spider in a swamp near Bloxworth. This 

 example measures a little over l of an inch in length ; but in 

 other respects it exactly agrees with the typical specimen. 

 The spiracular plates in both examples are of a pale yellowish 

 hue. 



Neriene lajjidicola^ Thor. 



Neriene rvjlpes, Bl. Spid. Great Brit. & Irel. p. 251. 

 Neriene lapidicola, Thor., Cambr. Spiders of Dorset, p. 489. 



Two adult females (found in the same locality and at the 

 same time as the last species) differed in being smaller ,• the 

 eyes also are smaller, and those of the hinder row are divided 

 l)y equal intervals, whereas in N. formidabilis the interval 

 between those of the hind central pair is distinctly smaller 

 than that between each and the hind lateral eye next to it. 

 The general colouring and appearance, however, of the two 

 spiders is very similar ; the spiracular plates are also pale 

 yellowish in both ; and the genital apertures are much alike. 

 1 am inclined to think that the two examples now recorded 

 are the females of N rufipes, BL, a spider to which Dr. Tho- 

 rell has given the specific name of lapidicola, in consequence 

 of the name rxifpes being preoccupied by a species of the same 

 group named by Prof. Sundevall of Sweden. Whether these 

 two or the spiders I have named N. formidabilis are the true 



