Arachnida. 7555 



write on the strength of promises of assistance is, *' What work is there 

 from which we may obtain the names of our captures, &c. ?" 1 can now 

 point to the work by Mr. Blackwall mentioned above as worthy of all 

 commendation, both for the beauty of the plates (especially the minute 

 accuracy of the palpi) and the accuracy of the descriptions ; so that 

 one great hindrance to the study is now in course of removal. 



The early part of last season (April and May, 1860) promised to be 

 unusually prolific in spiders ; but the heavy rains and cold ungenial 

 weather that set in early in June thinned the summer broods, and 

 some species usually very abundant were quite scarce. The autumn 

 was very barren in adults, and whole broods of young must have been 

 destroyed by the continued rain and wind at the end of October, and 

 as the progenitors of the next season's broods spring from those that 

 hybernate and become adult early in the spring and summer, I think 

 we may expect the next season to be a very barren one, whatever the 

 weather may be, though if the early summer be fine and genial the 

 autumn broods will probably regain their usual numbers. 



The following list of my last year's captures may be considered as a 

 further supplement to the lists in the 'Zoologist' (Zool. 6493, 6862). 

 I have, though, noticed here afresh some few species already noticed 

 in those lists ; but where this is the case I have inserted a reference 

 to the former notice. 



The terms " common," " rare," &c., are used in the present list, as 

 nearly as practicable, in the sense explained (Zool. 6893). All the 

 species mentioned in the present list were captured by myself, except 

 where stated otherwise. 



Order Aeaneidea. 

 Tribe Octonoculina. — Family MyGALiD^E. 



Atypus Sulzeri, Latreille (see Zool. 6494). An immature female, 

 taken from the bottom of its silken tube, dug out of the ground, in the 

 Isle of Portland, in July, 1860. 



Family Lycosid^. 



Lycosa armillata, Walck. New to Britain. An adult male of this 

 species taken running in the sunshine on tTursley Down, near Win- 

 chester, in May, 1860. It is allied to L. rapax, but easily distinguished 

 by the gouty tibial joints of the first pair of legs, and it is much more 

 clearly and distinctly marked, the contrast between the jet-black and 

 pure white hairs on the cephalothorax and abdomen being very 

 remarkable. 



