230 Falconer: The Spiders of Wicken, Cambridge. 
inverted A; nearly filling up the space between them, a 
very pale round-headed process ; on the anterior part two 
large round dark-coloured spermathece separated by less 
than the diameter of one of them, and each flanked a 
little below by two long straight stiff black hairs. 
Three other species of Maro have previously been described, 
and are, as at present known, exclusively British. Maro 
minutus Camb.* and M. falconeris Jacks,t are usually a little 
smaller than M. sublestus and more unicolorous. The first 
examples of M. minutus Camb. (types, etc.), which has so far 
been confined to the Colne Valley, South-West Yorkshire, were 
obtained from amongst an old heap of sand-stones loosely 
embedded in the ground and covered with soil, and harmonised 
with them in colour, being of a uniform yellow-brown ; later 
specimens found in other places, both in the open and in woods, 
have borne faint traces of darker markings or of more general 
suffusion. On comparing the epigynes of these two species with 
that of M. sublestus, the generic affinity of the three is at once 
evident, but in both the former, that organ is neither partly 
detached from the abdomen, nor projecting, nor so far as can 
be seen provided with any tubercles. The remaining species, 
M. persimilis Camb.t (1 Q Fenagh, Ireland), is doubtfully 
allocated to this genus. It is much the same size as M. 
sublestus, and has also certain darker markings, which are 
however, of a browner hue, and although its epigyne, which is of 
a different type from the others, is both partly detached and 
projecting, the backward process is of a totally different 
character and structure. 
7O: 
The Museums Journal for June contains a paper on ‘ Regional Study 
in Museums,’ by Professor H. J. Fleure. 
The May list of additions to the Warrington Museum includes an item 
of ‘66 stone implements from French Cave deposits.’ 
We notice The Library Assistant contains an advertisement, ‘ Wanted, 
an Assistant Librarian and Caretaker for the Museum’ of a Yorkshire 
Society. 
We hear that the most important article in the last volume of The 
Museums Journal had reference to ‘ The preservation of Antiquities,’ and 
was written by a German. 
Manchestey Museum Handbook (Publication 75) deals with the Stela of 
Sebek-khu, the earliest record of an Egyptian Campaign in Asia, and is by 
T. Eric Peet, B.A. It is sold at 2s. 
* «Proceedings Dorset N. H. and A. F. Club,’ vol. xxvii., 1906, figs. 
12-18, and ‘ Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberland, Durahm and New- 
castle,’ New Series, vol. iii., pl. iv., figs. 21-25. 
+ ‘Trans, Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle,’ 
New Series, vol. iii., pl. iv., figs. 16-20. 
+ ‘Proc. Dorset N. H. and A. F. Club,‘ vol. xxxiii., 1912, figs. 20-22a. 
Naturalist, 
