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VI. Systematic List of the Spiders at present knoivn to inhabit Great B 



Ireland. By the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, M.A., C.M.Z.S. 



Read Pebruary 19 th, 1874. 



Dr. T 



The 





t) characters 



gists. ' 

 of a Ion 

 the world 



em; cnaracuei^, ax.. ^^.^^ pretensions to finality) is the result 



The present arrangement (t^-o^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ,,, ,^,,1^ ,i,lt regions of 



g and tolerably careful study ^^J^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Ti^,,,U ^^ Dr. Koch begin 



the wld. It begins at the opposr^ nd to that^.l ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ 



their systematic arrangements ; but t is y .^^^^^^^^^ ^,rk ' On the Genera of 



classification of the Araneidea. . , , ^ iitj Blackwall and myself in former works 



In the present list the genera adop ed Dy ^ ^^^ ^^^^^.^ ^.^ ^^^^^^^ 



^ r.nr.Pr« bavo bccn largely broken up, toum = 7VWr^;,^.and 7^^/^"^- 



and papers have been lar 



The "-enera Linyphia, Neriene, and TFatch 



anu pa.jjcj.a xxwTw w - f* prl The "'enerax/*«yj''"'*"'j ■^"'' "'"''» — »— ^^ — 



ty Dr. ThoreU in the work a''"^^^'""' ..ed by Mr. Blackwall-not because they 

 »«*«. however, hare been left almost as u j ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^.^ 



naera, however, have been leit a^ ^^ye been as yet unable to arrive at a method 

 thus satisfactory to myself, ^"^^^^^^^'^^u gjo^ps. though my attention is at this moment 



of satisfactorily dealin 



particularly directed to the t^™ /f '7; . ^^^j to be now entitled to a name different 

 In those instances where a spider i. cons ^^^ ^^^.^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^j^^.^^^.^y ^^. ^^_ 



from and prior to that under which It was to ^v 



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DUUING the last five years a constant communication and interchange of typical 



examples of spiders has been going on between Dr. T. ThorcU, of IJpsala, Sweden, Dr. 



L. Koch, of Niirnberg, Bavaria, Mens. Eugene Simon, of Paris, myself, and others, 



with a view to a determination of the synonymic identity of the spiders recorded as 



indigenous to Europe, but principally to Sweden, England, Germany, and France. Tlie / 



results of this investigation have been published by Dr. ThoreU in a most laborious and 



exhaustive work, lately completed, *0d the Synonyms of European Spiders/ The 



effect of this work is to give priority to names of many British Spiders, described by 



:\Ir. Blackwall and myself, other than the names they bear in our works ; the trnie, 



therefore, appears to have arrived when a list, complete to the present time, of the 



known spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, under the names to which, accor^dmg to tl- 



laws of priority, they appear to be entitled, seems to be a desideratum " ' - 



indeed (Syn. Eur. Spid. p. 471), gives a list of British Spiders ; bu it is -mplete on y 



the date of Mr. Blackwall's work the ' Spiders of Great Brr^am and Ireland [18^0-18 i] 



sL the publication of which the number of known indigenous species has mcreased 



by more than one half 



VOL. XXX. 



