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shortly after reported " several very white and starved-looking 

 Foraminiferar At once comprehending the importance of 

 this discovery, if a hona fide one, we made a further joint-in- 

 vestigation of the deposit, and dug into the bed for a depth 

 of nearly 3 feet, and from the bottom of the excavation thus 

 made we removed several pounds' weight of clay for examina- 

 tion. Although careful search was made throughout this 

 material by Mr Bennie, no further discovery took place. We 

 must not, therefore, lay any stress on the occurrence of these 

 Foraminifera in the meantime. 



We endeavoured to clear a surface of the tuff on which the 

 clay rests, to ascertain if it was glaciated. It was, however, 

 in too weathered or decomposed a state to show this, at any- 

 rate to the depth to which we were able to penetrate. 



VIII. On some Spiders from Newfoundland. By Eev. 

 0. P. Cambridge, M.A. [Plate III.] 



(Read 16th Febraary 1881.) 



A small collection of spiders made at Brigus, Newfound- 

 land, by Mr Archibald Gray, student of medicine in the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, and kindly placed in my hands by Mr 

 R Etheridge, jun. (British Museum), contained three species 

 of JSpeira, a Chiracanthium, and a Lycosa. One of the Epeirids 

 appears to me to be new to science ; but the Chiracanthium 

 and Lycosa were in too damaged a condition for their species 

 to be identified. The following is a list of this small collec- 

 tion : 



Family Epeirides. 

 Genus Epeira. 



Epeira diademata (Clk.). — In the Proceedings of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, 1877, vol. xix., p. 68, Mr J. H. 

 Emerton says that this species " has not been found in 

 America, nor is its place filled by any similar species." Its 

 occurrence, therefore, in Newfoundland, is interesting. Both 

 sexes are among the examples received from Mr Gray. I have 

 carefully compared them with both British and Continental- 

 European examples, and can find no difference whatever. 



