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year. The species is widely spread over the british Isles 
and throughout Europe. The name stands in Stewart's 
“ List of Insects found in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh,” 
published in 1808. 
Colinton, Dreghorn, Pentlands, Rosslyn, Newpark, Winton, Borthwick, 
ete., June and July, ad. gs and @s and imm. examples common; banks 
of the Avon above Linlithgow, June, a few imm.; Leven, Falkland, 
Aberlady, Aug. and Sept., many gs and 9s ad.; Tynefield, Westbarns 
Links, Biel, etc. (East Lothian), Aug. and Sept., ad. gs and ?s common ; 
Isle of May, Aug., imm. 9; Merchiston, Aug., ad. ¢ ; etc. 
Very young Phalangids, many of them referrable apparently to this 
species, were often noticed on the undersides of stones and among grass 
about the beginning of May. 
Phalangium parietinum, De G. 
Is common in summer and autumn on walls in the 
southern suburbs of Edinburgh, and probably also in similar 
situations elsewhere. During the daytime they are to be 
found at rest under the copings, from which it would seem 
they are mainly noctural feeders. Widely distributed in 
the British Isles; and recorded from Sweden, Denmark, 
Germany, France, and the Canaries. 
Merchiston and other suburbs of Edinburgh, on walls, ad. gs and ?s and 
imm. examples common in July, Aug., and Sept., ad. 9s in Nov.; Leven 
(Fife), Aug.; Largo, Sept., ad. ¢ ; Comiston, Nov., several. 
Phalangium saxatile (C. L. Koch). 
Among a number of Phalangids collected in the vicinity 
of Leven, Fife, during August 1893, there is an adult female 
of this species. We have recognised it on but one other 
occasion. Rev. O. P. Cambridge only records it from the 
south of England. It has occurred once in Ireland (near 
Dublin), and is found in France, Germany, Italy, and the 
Canaries. 
Near Leven (Fife), Aug., ad. 9; Kaimes, near Edinburgh, Oct., several 
ad. 9s on the undersides of stones. 
Platybunus corniger (Herm.). 
Though we have collected this species on some half-dozen 
occasions only, it is probably neither particularly local nor 
uncommon in the district. When Mr Cambridge published 
