Arachnida. Ib^l 



S. grossipes, Degeer. New as British. An adult male on rushes 

 in a bog near Lyndhurst, Hants, in May, 1860. 



S. nidicolens, Walck. New as British. An immature female of 

 this distinctly marked species on Bloxworth Heath, in September, 

 1860. 



S. obscurus, Blackw. Adults of both sexes frequent on trees and 

 bushes in woods at Lyndhurst and Bloxworth, throughout the summer 

 of I860 ; a single specimen of the male only hitherto known. 



■ S. tardigradus, Walck. An adult female received for examination 

 from Mr. W. C. Unwin, of Lewes, Sussex, in January, 1860, and an 

 immature female taken by myself in a cleft of a wood paling at Calke 

 Abbey, near Derby, in April, 1860. 



S. distinctus, Blackw. Immature males and females taken under 

 loose stones in garden wall at Hendre House, Llaurwst, in April. 



Family THOMisin.E. 



Thomisus clavatus, Latreille (Zool. 6863). Frequent, under de- 

 tached pieces of rock in the Isle of Portland, July, 1860. Principally 

 adult females with their egg-cocoons, each of which contained from 

 five to seven eggs not agglutinated together. Like many other spiders 

 the attachment of this species to its cocoon is very remarkable, though 

 not perhaps so strong as with many of the Lycosidoe. 



T. lauio, Koch. New as British. Males and females, adult, occa- 

 sional, on oak underwood, near Lyndhurst, end of May, 1860. 



T. pallidus, Blackw. An adult female on Lyndhurst Heath, under 

 dry cowdung, in 1858. Hitherto mistaken, both by Mr. Meade and 

 myself, for T. atomarius, the notice concerning which must therefore 

 be struck out from Zool. 6493. An adult male, and several imn)ature 

 females, at Bloxworth in October, 1860. The adult male had been 

 hitherto undiscovered. 



T. floricolens, Walck. An adult male and several immature females, 

 on Scotch firs, Lyndhurst, May, 1860 ; also immature females, occa- 

 sional, on underwood, Bloxworth, July, 1860. 



Philodromus dispar, Walck. (Zool. 6496). Males and females, 

 adult and immature, at Hursley, Lyndhurst and Bloxworth, throughout 

 the summer. It appears to arrive at the adult state in June and July, 

 and is frequent on trees and bushes. 



Sparassus smaragdulus, Walck. (Zool. 6497). I have never yet 

 succeeded in capturing an adult male of this beautiful species, but 

 males and females immature arc occasional, on underwood, Bloxworth, 

 in autumn. 



