SCIENCE- G OS SIP. 



Length. Male 2.5 mm., female 2.75 mm. 



The cephalo-thorax is dark brown and marked 

 with numerous very distinct punctures, especially 

 upon the margins, and forming lines towards the 

 thoracic indentation. The sternum is similarly 

 punctured. The legs are of a reddish tint and the 

 abdomen is black. This is not a common species. 



Lophomma herbigradum Bl. [Neriene her- 

 bigrada in "Spiders of Dorset.") 



Length. Male 2 mm., female 2.5 mm. 



This species may be distinguished from L. pnincta- 

 tum by the absence of the punctures. The radial 

 joint is furnished with a distinct apophysis. 



Loph.orn.rna laudatuni Cb. [Walckenaera 



laudato, in " Spiders of Dorset.") 



Length. Male 2 mm., female 2.25 mm. 



This species is very similar to L. herbigradum, 



but the radial joint, although somewhat produced, 



has no distinct apophysis. 



L. eurtipes Cb. [Neriene curtipes in " Spiders 

 Dorset.") 



Length. Male 2 mm. 



This very rare species, whose systematic position 

 is somewhat doubtful, is believed by Rev. O. P. 

 Cambridge to be referable to this genus. It has been 

 taken in Berwickshire. 



GENUS ERIGONE ALT. 



The spiders which compose this genus are very 

 similar in structure to those of Dicyphus, but the 

 following details will separate them. The palpi are 

 usually very long. The fakes are armed on both 

 sides of the fang groove with a row of strong teeth ; 

 and each falx has upon its external surface a number 

 of small denticulations. 



Erigone longipalpis Sund. [Neriene longi- 

 palpis in " Spiders of Dorset.'') 



Length. Male 2.75 mm., female 3 mm. 



Cephalo-thorax very dark brown. Legs rather 

 paler, with a reddish tinge. Abdomen black. The 

 radial joint is somewhat produced on its upper side, 

 this part being rather pointed. It is not a very 

 common species. 



Erigone promiscua Cb. [Neriene promiscua 

 in " Spiders of Dorset ") 



Length. Male 2.25 mm. 



This species may be distinguished from E. longi- 

 palpis by the form of the radial joint of the male 

 palpus. This joint when viewed in profile is seen to 

 be furnished with a small denticulalion upon its lower 

 surface. It is a rare spider, but must not be con- 

 founded with the next species, to which it bears a 

 very strong resemblance. 



Erigone dentipalpis Wid. [Neriene denti- 



fialpis in " Spiders of Dorset.") 



Length. Male 2.5 mm., female 2.75 mm. 



The radial joint is wider than that of E. promiscua, 



but is also furnished with a denticulation upon its 

 lower surface. This is a common spider. It occurs 

 in great abundance in "The Green Park," West- 

 minster, where, in February, any number of both 

 sexes may be found by carefully examining the grass, 

 especially that in the vicinity of trees. 



Erigone atra Bl. [Neriene atra in "Spiders 

 of Dorset" ; Neriene longipalpis Bl. in "Spiders of 

 Great Britain and Ireland.") 



Length. Male 2.5 mm., female 2.75 mm. 



This spider bears a very close resemblance to 

 E. longipalpis, but may be distinguished by the 

 produced portion of the radial joint of the male 

 palpus being of a much more obtuse form. 



Erigone pascalis Cb. [Neriene pascalis in 

 " Spiders of Dorset.") 



Length. Male 2. 1 mm. 



Cephalo-thorax and legs yellowish-brown with a 

 greenish tinge. Abdomen black. The systematic- 

 position of this very rare spider is doubtful, but it 

 probably belongs to this genus. 



( To he contin wed. ) 



The New F. R. S. - The fifteen candidates selected 

 by the Council of the Royal Society for election this 

 year are : — Major Alfred William Alcock, 

 I. M.S., M.B., C.M.Z.S., Superintendent of the 

 Indian Museum, Professor of Zoology in Medical 

 College, Calcutta ; Frank Watsox Dyson, M.A. , 

 Chief Assistant Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 

 Secretary of Royal Astronomical Society ; Arthur 

 John Evans, M.A., Vice-President of the Society 

 of Antiquaries, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum', 

 Oxford, Archaeologist and Anthropologist : John 

 Walter Gregory, D.Sc, F.G.S., Professor of 

 ■ Geology in the University of Melbourne, Explorer 

 and appointed Scientific Leader of British Antarctic 

 Expedition (since resigned) ; Captain Henry Brad- 

 wardine Jackson, R.N., Naval Attache to British 

 Embassy, Paris, Naval Inventor, Investigator of 

 Electrical Phenomena ; Hector Munro Mac- 

 don ald, M.A. , University Lecturer in Mathematics, 

 Cambridge : James Mansergh, President of the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, Student of Hydro- 

 statics and Water Supply ; Charles James Martin, 

 M.B., D.Sc. (Lond.), Professor of Physiology in the 

 University of Melbourne, Investigator of Ch'emistrv 

 and Physiological Action of Snake Yemon : Major 

 Ronald Ross, I. M.S., M.R.C.S., D.P.H., Patho- 

 logical Investigator into Malaria, Tropical Flygiene, 

 and Parasitology-; William Schlick, Ph.D.. 

 CLE., Frofessor of Forestry at the Royal Engineering 

 College, Coopers Hill, and late Conservator of 

 Forests in Sind, Bengal, and the Punjaub ; Arthur 

 Smithells, B.Sc, F.C.S., Professor of Chemistry 

 in the Yorkshire College, Leeds : M. R. Oldfield 

 Thomas, F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., M. Anthrop. Inst., 

 Senior Assistant Zoological Department, British 

 Museum: William Watson, B.Sc. , Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Physics at Royal College of Science, London ; 

 William Cecil Dampier Whetham, M.A. , 

 Lecturer in Physics at Cambridge ; Arthur Smith 

 Woodward, F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., 

 Assistant Keeper of Ceology, British Museum of 

 Natural History. 



