Families, Genera and Species of British Spiders, etc. 447 



II. Bulb less swollen, but distinctly longer 

 than broad, and at least a little shorter 

 than the movable limb of forceps. 



1. Hairs strongly and uniformly clavatc 



(some simple on legs and palpi) ; 

 I caput and thorax equal in width 



from back to front. 



[a] A strong impression in the middle 

 at the posterior margin of tlie 



caput pludcratus Sim. 



[b) No impression at the posterior 



margin of the caput. 

 * Cephalothorax with strong granu- 

 lations : size smaller . . . . scoi'pioidcs Herm.* 

 ** Granulations less strong : size 



larger piinzeri C. L. Koch.f 



2. Hairs less strong, many simple ; 



caput wider from back to front than 



the thorax dubiiis Camb. 



(6) Gen. Chiridium. 



Small ; body regularly oval, wide behind 



and pointed in front mnseorum Leach. 



PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SOCIETIES. 



The Hull Literary Club Magazine (Vol. IV., pt. i), is a record of the 

 club's work during the past session. Under the somewhat unexpected 

 title of ' An Early Flitting ' Mr. J. Scarisbrick gives a study of local race 

 origins Mr. Alfred Jordan has an interesting paper on the ' Significance 

 of Thomas Henry Huxley,' ^ and there is the President's address on Some 

 Famous English Allegories.' 



The Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 

 (Vol XIV. pts. I and 2), contain a number of papers, literary and scientific. 

 Those likeiv to interest our readers are :— ' Crystallization of Igneous 

 Rocks' by'Mr. J. McKenzie Newton; 'Mountain Structure, by Prof. 

 W S Boulton ; ' The Conditions under which the Triassic Deposits of 

 England were formed, with special reference to the Keuper Marls,' by 

 jNIr. F. Creswell. 



The Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (\ ol. 

 IX., part 1), contain several papers of particular interest to East Anglian 

 naturalists ' \mongst them are several valuable botanical notes by Messrs. 

 W G Clarke Arthur Bennett, and W. H. Burrell. Mr. A. H. Pattenson 

 gives notes on a Decayed Trawl Fishery, and Natural History Notes from 

 Yarmouth • ^Ir. J. H. Gurney contributes a paper on the Great Migration 

 of the Crossbills, Mr. T. J. Wigg writes on the Herring Fishery of 1909 ; 

 IMr F W. Harmer describes the local Glacial Deposits ; Mr. A. W. Preston 

 gives meteorological notes, and Mr. Frank Leney gives particulars of the 

 recent additions to the Norwich Museum. Few societies can shew such an 

 excellent record of local work as can the Norwich Society. 



* C. minntus Filing is the q of this species. 

 t C. rufeolus Sim. by priority. 



igio Dec. i. 



