Spiders from the Edinburgh District. 20 



LIST OF ADDITIONAL SPECIES. 



Order ARANEIDEA. 



Prosthesima petiverii (Scop). 



Drassus ater, Bl. Spid. Gt. Brit, and Irel. 

 Prosthesima suhterranea (Koch). 



A number of adult $ s and $ s of this velvety black 

 Drassid were found under stones on the south side of 

 Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, on 14th July 1900. They were 

 very quick in their movements and difficult to capture 

 among the close-set stones and grass. In Scotland, this 

 species has been recorded from Berwickshire and Castle 

 Douglas (Cambr., Entomologist, 1877, p. 158). 



Chiracanthium carnifex (Fabr.). 



Cluhiona erratica, Bl. Spid. Gt. Brit, and Irel, 



On 13th July 1901, half a dozen females of this rather 

 handsome, greenish spider were found, along with their eggs, 

 in their characteristic white cocoons on heath at Clackmannan 

 Forest. Though common in the Highlands of Scotland, the 

 species appears to be rare in this district, and we are glad 

 to be able to add it to our list. 



Leptyphantes pinicola, Sim. 



Among some spiders from this district, which we sent to 

 the Kev. 0. P. Cambridge in October 1895, he has recently 

 identified an adult male of this species, as recorded by him 

 in a paper "On New and Eare British Spiders," published in 

 the Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. Field Chib, vol. xxiv. (1903) 

 p. 152. The specimen was obtained in the vicinity of 

 Edinburgh, — either on or close to the Pentland Hills, — in 

 the autumn of 1895. 



Leptyphantes tenebricola (Wid.). 



Two specimens, ad. $ and $ , of the true Linyphia 

 tenebricola of Wider, were captured in Pomathorn Dean, 

 Penicuik, Midlothian, on 1st December 1901. They were 

 submitted to Mr Cambridge (cf. Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. 

 Field Club, vol. xxiii., 1902, p. 20). 



