560 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
Porrhomma microphthalma (Cb.). 
Linyphia microphthalma+ L. incerta + L. decens, Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
Linyphia meadii, F. Cb. (Aan. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1894). 
A rare spider, of which a pair (adult male and female, 
identified by Mr Cambridge) were obtained on Scaldlaw 
(Pentlands), 17th October 1893. Under the name of 
Linyphia decens it has been recorded from Berwickshire by 
Mr Cambridge—vide his paper in the Entomologist for 1877. 
Porrhomma egeria, Sim. 
Of this species, which is now recorded for the first time as 
British, a female was taken by Mr Bruce Campbell in Dal- 
meny Park, 11th March 1893. An adult female was also 
obtained in the neighbourhood of Rosslyn in July 1893; 
and on 22nd March 1894 numerous females and one male 
—all adult—were found running on the top rail of a_ paling 
at Murrayfield, immediately to the west of the city. We 
have to thank Mr Cambridge for the specific determination. 
We believe this to be the first British record of the species, 
though we hear from Mr Cambridge that it has also been 
taken at Cheddar, Somerset, this last spring (1894). 
Porrhomma pygmza (Bi.). 
Neriene pygmea, Bl. Spid. Great Brit. and Irel., and Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
Apparently scarce, a few specimens only (some of which 
Mr Cambridge has seen) having been obtained by beating 
furze. 
Near Balerno, ad. g and @, 14th April 1893; again, 12th Sept., ad. 6 ; 
Pendreich, near Bridge of Allan, ad. g, and a number of imm. 6s and 
?s, probably belonging to same species, 31st December. 
Porrhomma reticulata (Cb.)=P. adipatum (L. K.). 
Linyphia reticulata, Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
This interesting and apparently alpine species may be 
expected to occur on the tops of some of our higher hills, 
seeing it has been recorded from the Cheviots and the 
1 We are at a loss to understand why Mr F. P. Cambridge has thought it 
necessary to bestow a fourth name on a species which he has shown to be 
already provided with three. - 
