132 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Mr. J, IS". Halbert ; by Mrs. R. M. Barrington, Mr. J. L. Copeman, 

 the Hon. R. E. Dillon, Mr. H. L. Jameson, Mr. W. F. de V. Kane, 

 Mr. J. J". F. X. King, the Eev. Dr. R. A. M'Clean, Mr. F. IS'eale, Miss 

 Sydney Smith, and Mr. R. Welch. And I am very specially indebted 

 to three naturalists resident in difEerent parts of the country who have 

 collected for me at all seasons of the year, and have thus largely aided 

 my survey of the distribution of species in Ireland ; these friends are 

 the Rev. W. F. Johnson, of Armagh (now of Poyntzpass), Mr. J. N". 

 Milne, of Londonderry, and Mr. J. J. Wolfe, of Skibbereen. It will 

 be seen also how many valuable records are due to the work of the 

 Royal Irish Academy Flora and Fauna Committee. 



In general I have followed the nomenclature of M. Simon, 

 adopting, however, in some cases the generic terms used by MM. 

 Chyzer and Kulczynski. Synonyms have, as a rule, only been given 

 where the name used by me differs from that in the well-known 

 monographs of Blackwall and Cambridge. Under each species is given 

 its distribution in Ireland according to the four political provinces — 

 Ulster, Connaught, Munster, and Leinster ; material is as yet far too 

 scanty to attempt a county distribution of Irish spiders. "With all 

 but the commonest species, however, I have stated the counties in 

 which specimens have been found. I have also endeavoured, as far 

 as possible, to trace the British and general range of each spider men- 

 tioned ; for the fact that a certain animal occurs in Ireland will not 

 help us to solve any geographical problem, unless we know where else 

 it occurs. In drawing up these outlines of the range of the species 

 outside Ireland, I have relied upon the books and papers enumerated 

 below : — 



Beckee, L. — Arachnides d'Espagne (Galice). Ann. Soc. JEnt. Belg., 



tome XXV., 1881, pp. Ixv-lxvii. 

 BosENBEKG, "W. — Die echten Spinnen der Umgebung Hamburgs. 



Jahrh. Hamb. Wissens. Anstalten, vol. xiv. 

 Cambeidge, 0. P. — On the Spiders of Scotland, with a list of species. 



Entomologist, vol. x., 1877, pp. 154-9, 174-181, 202^6. 

 ,, General List of the Spiders of Palestine and Syria. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Loncl., 1872, pp. 212-304. 

 Cambridge, F. 0. P. — List of the Araneida or Spiders of the Channel 



Islands. Trans. Guernei/ Soc. Nat. Sci., 1894. 

 ,, A List of the Araneida of Cumberland and the Lake 



District. Naturalist, 1895, pp. 29-48. 

 Canestkini, G., & Pavesi, P. — Araneidi Italiani. Atti. Soc. Ital. Scien%. 



Nat., vol. vii., 1868, pp. 758-872. 



