REV. O. P. CAMBRIDGE ON NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. 535 
? Aranea cicurea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. p. 410. n. 12; Panzer, Fauna Germ. iv. 23. 
Cicurina cicur, Menge, Preuss. Spinn. p. 272, pl. 50. fig. 159. 
Adults and immature examples of both sexes of this very distinct species were found 
by myself, in October 1872, while destroying a small disused sewer deep underground, 
every known external aperture to which had been closed during the last thirty or 
forty years. In the angles of the brickwork T. cicurea had spun its webs, which nearly 
resembled those of 7. civilis ; while flattish, white, lenticular cocoons of eggs were here and 
there loosely attached by silken threads to the surface where any inequality existed. 
Yhis spider may easily be distinguished from all its congeners by its smaller size and 
plainer colouring, no pattern being visible either on the cephalothorax or abdomen ; the 
latter, however, has a reticulated appearance in spirit of wine. The palpal organs are 
very highly developed, and, although bearing a general resemblance to those of other 
species of Tegenaria, were unmistakably different in the details of their rather complex 
structure. 
Herr Menge has (apparently without much reason) founded a genus (Cicurina) upon 
this spider, altering also its specific name from cicurea to cicur, though why he has done 
so itis noteasy to see. His figures of the palpi and palpal organs are good. 
The present is the first record of its occurrence in England. 
Family THERIDIDES. 
Genus THERIDION, Walk. (Bl.). 
THERIDION BLACKWALLII. 
Theridion Blackwallii, Cambr. Linn. Trans. xxvii. p. 419, pl. 55. no. 16. 
A second example of this very distinet Theridion was found by myself on the outer 
side of one of the windows of St.-Alban Hall, Oxford, in June 1872. 
, THERIDION PRONUM. 
Pachydactylus pronus, Menge, Preussische Spinnen, p. 177, pl. 33. fig. 80. 
Adult examples of both sexes of this spider (new to Britain) were found by M. Eugene 
Simon, and subsequently by myself, on furze bushes, and at the roots, and among the 
stems of low herbage near Newhaven, Sussex. 
Genus Linypuia, Latr. (Bl.). 
LINYPHIA ALTICEPS. 
Linyphia alticeps, Sund. Svenska Spind. Beskr. in Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1832, p. 261. 
Adult examples of both sexes of this species were found by Mr. James Hardy on the 
Cheviot Hills in the autumn of 1871, and kindly forwarded to me. It is clearly a 
different spider altogether from L. alticeps, Bl. (Brit. & Ir. Spid. p. 226), although 
nearly allied (conf. Thor. Syn. Europ. Spid. p. 59). One of the leading characters by 
which it may be at once separated from Z. alticeps, Bl., is the prolongation of the apex 
of the caput into a conical point between the four central eyes; it is also a larger species. 
This «is its first record as having occurred in Great Britain. Linyphia alticeps, BL., 
which is identical with L. affinis, Westr., must now resume the name of L. luteola, 
under which it was first described in 1833 by Mr. Blackwall (Lond. € Edinb. Phil. 
Mag. 3rd ser. vol. ix. p. 102). 
