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the clypeus with only one or two short inconspicuous hairs. 

 The abdomen (figure 2) is wider than the cephalothorax, broad 

 behind with pointed termination, and in front projecting over 

 the cephalothorax in bluntly rounded form. In spirit, the whole 

 surface appears covered with dusky yellowish spots. 



Epigynal area black, much wider than long, with scattered 

 pubescence. Vulva very characteristic ; orifice truncate cone- 

 shaped, filled with a pale process of much the same shape (fig. 8). 



E. CALiGiNOSA is a very distinct species in coloration and 

 structure. The absence in the male of any cephalic lobe or 

 eminence, postocular impressions or ocular processes, and in its 

 palp, of any tibial apophysis or of a long circular or exserted 

 terminal spine in its palpal organs will at once separate it from 

 the same sex of every British member of the Erigoneae. The 

 female may be similarly identified by the disposition and curve 

 of the eyes, the strong pubescence on its abdomen and limbs, 

 the long tibial spine on legs IV., and the formation of its vulva. 



Solitary examples of the male and female were found at the 

 roots of rushes growing up through Sphagnum in boggy ground, 

 beside the Old Pack Horse Road on Clowes Moor, Marsden, 

 May 15th, 1909. 



The Annual Report and Transactions of the Manchester Microscopical 



Society for 1908 have recently been issued (90 pp., 1/6). They bear evidence 

 of an excellent year's work. Besides the business reports, there is the 

 Presidential Address of Prof. S. J. Hickson, on ' The Suctoria ' ; Mr. 

 T. Smith writes on ' Edible and Poisonous Fungi ' ; Mr. C. Turner on 

 ■ Desmids ' ; Mr. G. Hickling on ' The Microscopic Study of Rocks ' ; 

 Mr. R. Welch on ' Narin Foraniiniferous Strand ' ; and Mr. W. A. Roger- 

 son on ' Mummy Cloth.' There are also several shorter notes. The 

 report is cheap. 



The foremost place amongst the publications of our provincial scientific 

 societies must again be given to the Proceedings and Transactions of the 

 Liverpool Biological Society, Vol. XXIII., of which has been recently 

 received. Liverpool (653 pp., one guinea). 



The papers and reports it contains are of altogether e.xceptional value. 

 Besides accounts of the meetings, etc., the publication contains the Presi- 

 dential Address of Prof. B. Moore, on ' Reactions of Marine Organisms in 

 Relation to Light and Phosphorescence ' ; ' The Twenty-second Report 

 of the Liverpool Marine Biological Committee and their Biological Station 

 at Port Erin,' by Prof. W. A. Herdman ; ' Report on the Investigations 

 carried on during 1898 in connection with the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries' 

 Laboratory, at the University of Liverpool, and the Sea-Fish Hatchery 

 at Piel, near Barrow,' bj- Prof. W. A. Herdman, A. Scott and J. Johnstone. 

 The volume also contains no fewer than three of the important and pro- 

 fusely illustrated ' INIemoirs,' viz., ' Pecten,' by W. J. Dakin ; ' Eledone,' 

 by Annie Isgrove, and ' Polychaet Larvae of Port Erin,' by F. H. Gravely. 



Naturalist, 



