114 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on British Spiders. 
C. W. Dale, by whom adult females were found at Glanville’s 
Wootton, Dorset. 
Fam. Pholcides. 
Pholcus phalangioides, Fuessl. 
An opportunity occurring not long since of observing the 
mode in which this spider secured its prey, the following 
notes upon it will perhaps be worth recording. 
A fly of tolerable size became entangled among the outer 
lines of the snare ; the spider immediately approached, but no 
nearer than just to reach the fly with the legs of the hinder 
(or fourth) pair; it then drew silken lines from its spinners, 
and secured them to the fly with the same legs; this was 
immediately followed by a rapid alternate winding action upon 
the fly, effected also by the hinder pair of legs, occasionally 
assisted by one of those of the third pair; the fly was thus 
quickly and completely wound up, and then at once carried 
off to the recesses of the snare in the claws of the fourth pair 
of legs. No bite was inflicted upon the fly, which possibly 
may have been thus kept a living captive for days to come in 
the spider’s larder. A very similar mode of securing their 
prey is also adopted by some species of Epeirides. 
Fam. Theridiides. 
Genus Puotcomma, Thor. 
Pholecomma gibbum, Westr. 
Theridion projectum, Cambr. Zoologist, 1862, p. 7962. 
An adult male and female of this curious little spider were 
found in the sheltered angle of a verandah at Bloxworth on 
the 19th of February, 1877, and another male in the same 
situation on the 10th of April following. These examples 
had probably lived through the winter in the adult state; 
those captured in former years were generally found adult from 
the beginning to the end of summer, and at the roots of 
heather. 
Genus THERIDION, Walck. 
Theridion familiare. 
Theridion famiare, Cambr. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. p. 418, pl. 55. 
fig. 15. 
Adults of both sexes were found in the angles of the wood- 
work of doors of outbuildings at Bloxworth Rectory on the 
12th of July, 1877. I have not met with this spider in any 
