A List of Phalangidea and Chernetidea. 115 
I would again express my indebtedness to Mr Carpenter 
(to whom the whole of my specimens have been submitted) 
for his invaluable co-operation in the production of these 
papers on Arachnids. | 
The Phalangidea and the Chernetidea have received even 
less attention at the hands of British naturalists than the 
Avaneidea (Spiders), along with which and the Acaridea 
(Mites) they make up the class Arachnida, so far as it is 
represented in these islands. They are, no doubt, in a 
general way less attractive than the true Spiders, both as 
regards habits and variety of form and coloration, but they 
have, nevertheless, about them much that is of the deepest 
interest, and we hope that the present paper, slight as it is, 
may be the means of directing the attention of Scottish 
naturalists to them, so that our meagre information regarding 
their life-histories and distribution may soon be largely 
augmented. 
In his “ Monograph of the British Phalangidea, or Har- 
vestmen,’ published in 1890, the Rev. O. P. Cambridge 
enumerates twenty-two species, if we neglect Phalangiwim 
minutum, Meade, and reckon Oligolophus alpinus (Herbst.) 
to be simply a variety of O. morvio (Fabr.). Fourteen, or as 
near as may be two-thirds, of this number are now recorded 
for the Edinburgh district, and no less than seven of them 
are additions to the Scottish list. Curiously enough, the 
same fourteen species have been, up to the present, found 
by us in Ireland, with the exception of 0. palpinalis (Herbst.), 
which is replaced in the Irish list by O. ephippiatus (Koch). 
It will be noticed that the two British species of Sclerosoma 
and the two Z7ogulide are absent from our list. Seeing that 
these groups have their headquarters in the Mediterranean 
region, and are almost unknown in northern Europe, this is 
not surprising. Yet the habits and appearance of these 
Phalangids are so obscure, that it is possible some of them 
remain to be discovered in the district—the most likely 
being Zvrogulus tricarinatus (L.), which occurs in Denmark. 
The other three absentees all belong to the genus Oligolophus. 
OQ. cinerascens (Koch) is a northern and alpine species, which 
