Spiders collected in Neighbourhood of Edinburgh. 54% 
Agroéca gracilipes (Blackw.). 
Agelena gracilipes, Bl. Spid. Great Brit. and Irel. 
Liocranum gracilipes, Cambr, Spid. Dorset. 
Apparently very far from common, a single specimen—an 
immature female, identified by Mr Cambridge—taken at 
Pettycur in April 1895 being the only one as yet detected. 
Mr Cambridge informs us that the only other Scottish 
example he has seen was taken near Paisley. 
Family DICTYNIDAS. 
Dictyna arundinacea (Linn.). 
Ergatis benigna, Bl. Spid. Great Brit. and Trel. 
Locally common, but practically confined to uncultivated 
spots covered with tall heather, on the branches of which it 
constructs its slight snare and domicile. Both sexes are 
adult in May, and are then to be found living together in 
the same webs. 
Bavelaw Moss, May, ad. gs and 9s; Do., Sept., numbers imm.; 
Ravensnook Moor near Penicuik, July, one ad. ?, and numerous imm, 
examples of both sexes; Moss near Thornton, Fife, Aug. and Sept., 
abundant but imm., mostly on heather—some on spruces and also on 
rushes; Drumshoreland Moor, Sept., a few imm.; near Bridge of Allan, 
Dec.,, several very young examples on heather; ete. 
Dictyna arenicola, Cb. (sp. n.). 
In Sept. 1895, numerous immature examples of a Dictyna 
not unlike the last species, but much paler, were obtained 
about the roots of “marram” grass on the sandhills at the 
far end of Luffness Links, and skirting the eastern shore of 
Aberlady Bay. A few were shown to Mr Cambridge, who 
replied :—“ These are pale specimens, but strongly marked 
and very like D. borealis, Cambr. (from Greenland), but 
being quite young I should hesitate to name them so. 
Adults from the same locality as these were found in would 
be very desirable.’ Accordingly in the beginning of June 
1894 we revisited the spot, and were fortunate enough to 
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