392 Kev. F. 0. Pickard-Cambridge on 



Dorset ; Hertfordshire ; Epping Forest / Cumberland ; and 

 Scotland. 



Leptyj)hantes alacris, Blk. 



Males and females of this fine and rave spider were taken 

 in some abundance amongst dead leaves in the woods at 

 Wreay, near Carlisle, in April 1891. 



Leptyphantes nebulosus^ Snd. 



Males and females of this somewhat local spider were taken 

 at Cannock, Staffordshire, in May 1891, and also in Carlisle, 

 Oct. 1892. 



Genus Bathyphantes. 

 Bathyphantes imrvuluSj Westr. (PI. XXI. tigs. 7, a, h.) 



Length of male 1;^ line. 



Geplialotliorax dull yellow-brown, striai and margins tinged 

 with sooty brown. 



Abdomen dull black, unicolorous. 



Leys pale orange-yellow. Femora i. with two spines, one 

 above the other in front of the joint about the middle. 

 Femora ii. and iii. with a single spine above, about the 

 middle; iv. without any spine. Tibise i. with a dorsal and a 

 lateral spine upon either side of the joint towards the apex ; 

 ii. with a dorsal and one on the posterior side towards the 

 apex ; iii. and iv. with one spine towards the base, another 

 towards the apex on the upperside. 



Genual joints with a single spine at the apex. Metatarsi 

 without any spines. 



The paJpi of the male are very similar to those of circum- 

 n'pecta, but the falciform process (or hook) is more densely 

 clothed with a fringe of hairs on the inner side (PI. XXI, 

 tig. 7, a (a). The spiral spine at the apex scarcely takes so 

 wide a sweep, but is otherwise very similar to that of the 

 above-named species (PI. XXI. fig. 7, a (b)). 



This species may perhaps be most readily distinguislied by 

 the fact that the abdomen exhibits none of the transverse 

 bars so noticeable in circumspecta, being in fact unicolorous. 



Having no females by me I am unable to give a figure of 

 the epigyne. Both parvulus and circumspecta may be 

 distinguished from ericcea^ tenebricola^ zebrinus, &c. by the 

 presence in these species of a spine on the metatarsi. 



Not nearly so common a species as the next ; but found 



