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FOREIGN SPIDERS IN YORKSHIRE. 
WM. FALCONER, 
Slaithwaite, Huddersfield. 
ADVERTING to Mr. Mosley’s note in last month’s issue, p. 330, 
it is not the first time that Zoropsis rufipes Luc. has been sent 
to me from a Yorkshire locality. In 1912, Mr. Musham 
forwarded a female, which had been taken alive in the coal- 
scuttle of a Selby tradesman. Early in the same year a female 
of Z. maculosa Cambr.*, (the second known occurrence of this 

Photo by] ; W.J. Clarke, F.Z.S. 
Zoropsis maculosa Camb. 
spider), was obtained on the premises of a Scarborough shop- 
keeper, from a consignment of Jaffa oranges, and kept alive 
for some time by Mr. W. J. Clarke, who managed to secure 
an excellent snapshot of it (herewith produced) in a charac- 
teristic posture, and showing the spots on its body and legs, 
from which it derives its specific name. Both species are 
natives of the Mediterranean region, Canary Islands, etc. 
Though somewhat resembling in appearance some of our 

* Described and figured in the Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1907 (published 
May, 1908) pp. 820-823. 
Naturalist, 
