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Luffness, 16th June, a few young; Fairmilehead, etc., July, many young; 
Arthur’s Seat, 8th Aug., ad. 9, and numerous imm. gs and ¢s; Largo, 
Leven, etc., Aug., many ¢sand 9s, both ad. and imm. (some on fences) ; 
Isle of May, on rocks, Aug. and Sept., several ad. $s and many 9s, all rather 
darker coloured than usual; road near Glencorse Reservoir (Pentlands), 
Aberlady, Drem, Tyninghame, Kennoway, Kilconquhar, etc., Sept., adults 
abundant; farm at Balerno (on outhouse), Oct., ad. ¢ and several 9s; 
Craiglockhart (on wall), Torduff, Nov., a number of ?s beside their egg- 
cocoons ; Blackford Quarry, Dec., ?; Bridge of Allan, Jan., ¢?. 
Epeira cucurbitina, Cl. 
This pretty bright-green spider is far from common around 
Edinburgh, where it seems to be confined to ornamental 
shrubs and conifers in large gardens and pleasure-grounds. 
In summer, when it is adult, we have found it more readily 
in the Highlands (Callander, Kingussie, Aviemore), and then 
on young pines on the outskirts of woods and plantations. 
Donibristle, near Aberdour, on Wellingtonia, April, several young and 
imm. 98s; Raith grounds, on yew, April, young ? ; Hopetoun, on yew, April, 
imm. ¢ and young g; Gosford grounds, on ornamental fir, a number very 
young in Sept., adults in June. 
Epeira diademata (Cl.). 
Epeira diadema, Bl. Spid. Great Brit. and Irel. 
This large and handsome species, popularly known as the 
“oarden spider,” is widely distributed and common in the 
district. It is not, however, so much an inhabitant of 
gardens as of wild uncultivated localities. Pairs about 
harvest-time. The eggs, to the number of several hundred 
(we have counted 467 and 544), are deposited in autumn in 
a large round cocoon of yellow silk, but do not hatch, as far 
as we have observed, till the following April or May—the 
young apparently not reaching maturity till Aug. or Sept. of 
the succeeding year. We have never observed adults in 
spring or early summer, which would seem to indicate that 
they do not survive the winter. Young hatched in the end 
of April and beginning of May, and placed in a fern-case, 
were not observed to have formed orbicular snares till about 
the middle of June. 
Bonaly Glen and Loganlee .(Pentlands), Pettycur Links, March, several 
young ?s; Braid Hills, Aberdour, April, a number about half-grown ; Kirk- 
