Spiders collected in Neighbourhood of Edinburgh. 563 
Tmeticus reprobus (Cb ).! 
Neriene reproba, Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
Of this very rare and little known spider, we met with an 
adult male and numerous females beside their egg-cocoons 
under stones at high-water mark, St Colme Bay, Aberdour, on 
9th April 1894. We are indebted to Mr Cambridge for 
identifying our specimens, which are the first recorded for 
Scotland. The type-specimen was found under a stone on 
the coast near Weymouth in April 1879. 
. Tmeticus huthwaitii (Cb.). 
Neriene huthwaitii, Bl. Spid. Great Brit. and Irel., and Cambr. Spid, Dorset. 
An adult male taken in Spinkie Den, near Leven, Fife, 
on 27th Aug. 1893, and two females found under a stone 
at Loch Leven, Kinross, on 2nd June 1894, are the only 
examples of this rare spider we have met with in the district. 
An addition to the Scottish list. 
Tmeticus expertus (Cb). 
Linyphia experta, Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
This is another rare spider, of which a male and a female 
(both adult) were taken near Largo, Fife, on 7th Sept. 1893. 
In Mr Cambridge’s “ Spiders of Dorset,’ several examples 
are said to have been received from Berwickshire, but the 
precise localities, as given in his paper on “ Border” Spiders 
(Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, 1873-75, p. 319), are near Wooler, in 
Northumberland. The present would therefore appear to be 
the first record of the actual occurrence of the species in 
Scotland. 
Tmeticus bicolor (BI.). 
Neriene bicolor, Bl. Spid. Great Brit. and Ire}. 
Linyphia bicolor, Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
Generally distributed, and very common among herbage 
and under stones about roadsides, hedges, woods, etc. Adults 
of both sexes from autumn to spring—apparently most 
abundant in Oct. and Nov. 
1 We believe this spider to be a Z'meticus. M. Simon is certainly mistaken 
in associating it with Pedanostethus, for the female has no claw to the palp. 
