Spiders collected in Neighbourhood of Kdinburgh. 561 
mountains of Aberdeen and Sutherland. Hitherto, however, 
we have found it only under stones on the summit of 
Scaldlaw, the highest point of the Pentlands, where a male 
and a female, both adult, were taken on 17th October 1893. 
On the Continent it has only been found among the Alps of 
France, Switzerland, and the Tyrol. 
Hilaira uncata (Cb.). 
Neriene uncata, Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
Two examples only of this rare spider have been met with, 
namely, an adult male near Aberdour on 8th April 1893, and 
an adult female (identified by Mr Cambridge) beside Luffness 
Marsh, 4th Oct. 1893. Professor Trail obtained it on a 
mountain in Upper Dee about twenty years ago. Elsewhere 
it seems to have occurred only in Dorset, Northumberland, 
and a single locality in central France (Dept. Cantal). 
Tmeticus hardii (B1.). 
Walekenatra hardii, Bl. Spid. Great Brit. and Irel., and Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
Of this rare spider an adult male was captured under a 
stone embedded in seaweed at high-water mark, Jova’s Neuk, 
Aberlady Bay, on 16th Sept. 1893; another, supposed to be 
of the same species, escaped. Dr Hardy, whose name it 
bears, found the type-specimen under a stone on Penmanshiel 
Moor, Berwickshire, in Dec. 1848; and in Sept. 1858 he again 
obtained specimens in the same locality (Proc. Berw. Nat. 
Club, 1858, p. 95). The only other locality appears to be in 
the same French department that has yielded the preceding 
species. 
Tmeticus scopiger, Grube. 
Linyphia rufa, Camby. Spid. Dorset. 
Widely distributed, but not common; at roots of grass, 
rushes, heather, etc. Adult in autumn. Has been taken in 
Berwickshire, Aberdeenshire, and near Glasgow, and is 
apparently more of a northern than a southern species in 
Britain. Abroad it appears to range from north-eastern 
France to Sweden and Siberia. 
