Spiders collected in Neighbourhood of Edinburgh. 567 
Gongylidium morum, Cb. 
This species rests as yet on a single adult female found at 
Aberlady in September 1893, and described by the Rev. O. 
P. Cambridge as new to science in Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist. for 
Jan. 1894, p. 21. 
Tiso vagans (BI.). 
Neriene vagans, B), Spid. Great Brit. and Irel, 
Neriene longimana, Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
Rare, but obtained in several widely separated localities. 
Mr Cambridge, who took the species near Edinburgh in 1861, 
looks upon it as of more frequent occurrence in Scotland than 
in the south of England. Adults from spring to autumn. 
Salisbury Crags, 7th March 1893, ad. g ; Rosslyn, 27th July, ad. ¢ and 
@.; Aberlady, 30th Sept., ad. ¢ ; Luffness Links, among grass, 7th Oct., 
ad. ¢ (0. P.C.); foot of Carnethy, near Silverburn, 24th March 1894, ad. 6. 
Erigone atra, BI. 
Neriene longipalpis, Bl, Spid. Great Brit. and Irel. 
Neriene atra, Cambr. Spid. Dorset. 
Abundant everywhere. Adults occur at all seasons, but 
are especially numerous in spring and autumn. On sunny 
days during Nov. and Feb. the wall tops for miles out from 
Morningside are alive with the present species and Diplo- 
cephalus frontatus,; to them also is mainly due the gossamer, 
which we occasionally see spread over the fields, making 
them appear in the light of the morning or the evening sun 
like the surface of a lake moved into a ripple or ice-bound, 
according as a gentle breeze or a still atmosphere prevails. 
Wall tops and palings around Edinburgh, Feb. and March, ad. gs and ?s 
abundant; Braid, Feb., under overhanging bank, a few $s; Oxgangs, 
5th Feb. 1893, ploughed field entirely covered with gossamer, which must 
have been made in the course of a few hours during the early part of the day, 
yet by three o’clock in the afternoon it was with difficulty that half a dozen 
of the spiders (és and @s) could be got for identification ; Clubbiedean, 
Pettycur, etc., March, common; Aberdour, Balerno, Glencorse, April, ad. 
gsand ?s; Kinross, 2nd June, ad. gs, 9s com., and many cocoons (these 
contained on the average about fifteen eggs, some of which were hatching) 
attached to the undersides of stones—one stone had fifty-two on it; Sea- 
field, etc., June, a few ad. 6s; Hillend, Rosslyn, Temple, July, afew ad. gs 
and one 9; Leven, Aberlady, etc., Aug, andSept., numerous $s and 9s ad, 
