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spirit of wine, a few glass tubes of diflerent sizes, contained in 

 strong conveniently shaped tin boxes, are really all the materials 

 that ai'e needed for the preservation of Arachnids ; while the 

 " eye of faith and the finger of instinct " assisted by an empty 

 glass tube will suffice in the actual field. Not, of course, but that 

 a strong entomological sweeping hoop-net, for the brushing and 

 sweeping of shrubs and herbage, would fill the pocket-bottles all 

 the faster, and probably with some species not obtainable by 

 other methods. The prepondei-ance in the following List of 

 those groups of Spiders which at once and most obviously claim 

 the attention of the tourist as he toils along — viz., the Epeiridse, 

 Thomisida?, Lycosidse, and Salticidse — shows, it seems to me, how 

 rich a harvest would be reaped by a resident specialist in some of 

 the localities. The number of species here recorded, in these 

 four groups alone, amounts to 102 out of the total of 212 species 

 collected of the Araneidea (or true Spiders) ; while those of the 

 great group Theridiidse (in its widest sense) are only 65 in 

 number : a group which, I may remark in passing, numbers in 

 the British Islands alone upwards of 250 out of a total of the 

 whole Order of somewhere about 550 ! The greater number, 

 however, of the Theridiidse require something more in the way of 

 wearisome search than even the most observant eye of the 

 ordinary passing touinst ; and hence the tourist's bottle is most 

 commonlj' filled by species of the other four groups mentioned, 

 and which, often in countless numbers, are obvious on all sides 

 on a fine day in the mountains. 



I must here acknowledge my indebtedness to Mons. Eugene 

 Simon of Paris, and Dr. Roger de Lessert, of the Natural History 

 Museum, Geneva, for their invaluable assistance in the identifica- 

 tion of many of the species in the following List with which I 

 was unacquainted. 



List of Swiss Arachnids. 



Collected, or sent to me, at various periods and in various 

 localities by the following : — 



Initials in List. 



A.W.P.-C, (A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, Balliol College, 

 Oxford.) 

 R.J.P.-C. (Rev. R. J. Pickard-Cambridge, Warmwell 

 Rectory, Dorchester.) 

 H. A. P. (late Rev. H. A. Pickard, Airedale, Oxford.) 

 C. W. (Cecil Warburton, Christ's College, Cambridge.) 

 F. P. S. (F. P. Smith, 5 Gibson Square, London.) 

 R. G. (Robert Godfrey, late of 46 Cumberland Street, 



Edinburgh.) 

 G. N. (late Geoi"ge Nicholson, Director, Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, and 37 Larkfield Road, Richmond.) 

 A. S. A. (late A. S. Atkinson, Nelson, New Zciiland.) 



