120 Rey. O. P. Cambridge on British Spiders. 
of a stripe, whose fore part runs off to a point and has a pro- 
minently projecting point on each side, making it of a some- 
what flewr-de-lys form ; on each side near the fore extremity 
is also another curved black marking ; the oblong black area 
has four white spots near the middle in two pairs, forming an 
oblong figure; the foremost pair are much the largest. The 
sides are dark brown, marked obscurely, but somewhat ob- 
liquely, with two black stripes towards the hinder part; the 
underside forms a black area bounded on each side with a 
broken longitudinal stripe formed by some yellowish-white 
blotches. 
The example above described was found and kindly for- 
warded to me by Mr. C. W. Dale from the Isle of Portland, 
in September 1877. It appears to me to be only a variety of 
Zilla acalypha, Walck. ; but its markings are so very distinctly 
and strongly defined that I have been induced to figure it and 
to describe it at length: out of many hundred examples of 
the species that have come under my notice (both British and 
continental European) no such variety has ever been before 
observed. 
N.B. The legs of the first two pairs in the figure (fig. 4, 
Pl. XI.) are rather too short. 
Epewra Westringti. 
Epeira Westringii, Thorell, Recensio Critica Aranearum, p. 106; zd. 
Syn. Eur. Spid. pp. 22, 548. 
This spider is closely allied to H. cucurbitina, Clk., resem- 
bling it remarkably in general appearance, structure, and 
colour; it may, however, be distinguished without difficulty 
(in the male sex at least) by the absence of the two dark longi- 
tudinal bands on the cephalothorax, and by the smaller size 
of the digital joints of the palpi (including the palpal organs) ; 
these latter are also a little different in their structure. I 
cannot at present lay hold of any such tangible distinctions 
between the females of H. Westringit and E. cucurbitina. Dr. 
Thorell remarks (Syn. Eur. Spid. p. 549) upon the difficulty 
of distinguishing these, and the more especially as there is 
another species (not yet found in England), £. alpica, L. 
Koch, equally closely allied to both those other spiders. 
An adult male and, I believe, a female also were received 
at the end of June 1877 from Mr. C. W. Dale, by whom 
they were found at Glanyille’s Wootton. This is its first 
record as British. 
Epetra adianta, C. Koch. 
Males and females of this beautiful spider (all, however, im- 
