1869.] ON SPIDERS FROM ST. HELENA. 531 
Russia, by Mr. W. Mewes, the well-known Swedish ornithologist, 
who has been collecting in Russia this last summer. The bird was 
procured with the first-named clutch of three eggs on the 3rd of 
June. 
‘Mr. Mewes writes me that he found the Little Gull breeding 
not uncommonly on the Ladoga, and that he had no trouble in 
identifying the eggs. Further particulars respecting its nidification 
he does not give, but promises to do so ere long. 
“The eges of Larus minutus are, as will be seen, in size about 
similar to those of Sterna arctica, and in general appearance not 
unlike dark eggs of this Tern; indeed I have seen some eggs of the 
Arctic Tern that could almost be mistaken for those of the Little 
Gull. The ground-colour is dark brown or else greenish olive, and 
the spots and blotches, which are generally distributed over the egg, 
are greyish brown and dark umber-brown. In a series of twenty- 
five eges I have received I do not observe much variation, and none 
of them have a light ground-colour.” 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Notes on some Spiders and Scorpions from St. Helena, 
with Descriptions of New Species. By the Rev. O. P. 
CAMBRIDGE. 
(Plate XLH.) 
The small collection of Spiders kindly placed in my hands in May 
1869 by T. J. Melliss, Esq., must be considered a very scanty sample 
of the Araneidea of the island of St. Helena. The collection con- 
tained twenty-two species, of which two (of the genera Drassus and 
Clubiona) were too immature to be accurately determined, nine 
appeared to be undescribed, and eleven were referable to species 
already known and described by various authors. As far as so small 
a number of species may justify a general remark upon the character 
of the Araneidea.of St. Helena, it appears to bear a thoroughly 
European stamp, one alone belonging to any genus not indigenous 
to Europe (Ariadne mellissii). Four (if not five) species contained 
in the collection have been recorded as indigenous to Great Britain, 
viz. Segestria perfida, Dysdera rubicunda, Tegenaria atrica, Phol- 
cus phalangioides, and Epeira solers; the identity, however, of this 
last with the European £#. solers I am not satisfied about. Two 
species (Theridion punicum and Theridion fulvo-lunulatum) are 
described by Mr. Lucas as indigenous in Algeria; and three others 
(Argyropes aurelia, Salticus adansoni, and S. illigeri) are among 
those described by Savigny in his work on Egypt. Pasithea pul- 
chra (closely allied to Pasithea viridis (B1.) of Algeria, the Oxyopes 
littoralis (Simon) of Spain, was first described from examples received 
by Mr. Blackwall from the east of Central Africa. Among the 
species described as new there is but little to denote a locality so 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1869, No. XXXV. 
