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county of Down; InishM'Dara, county of Gal way ; Castleq[ufn, county 

 of Kerry ; Cork ; Bray, county of Wicklow ; Malahide, Kingstown, and 

 Dundrum, county of Dublin, as well as in Dublin city, where it 

 occasionally inhabits houses ; perhaps it is taking to an indoor life. 

 Adults occur in the open (under stones, &c.) from May till August ; 

 in houses as early as March. In Great Britain this is a rare species, 

 known to occur only in Dorset, the Isle of Man, and Berwickshire, 

 while, like nearly all its congeners, it is a characteristic Mediterranean 

 form abroad (Crete, Greece, Italy, Croatia, Spain, France northward 

 to Paris), occurring also in the Canaries and Azores, in St. Helena, 

 in South Africa, North America, and extra-tropical South America. 

 This discontinuous range shows clearly that it is an old species ; like 

 -many other ancient forms of Ufe, it seems able to hold its own in 

 Ireland. 



Harpactes Somlergii (Scop.). 



Dysdera Somhergii, Bl, (Spid. G. B. I.) 



Ulster, Connaught, Munster, Leinster, 



This species is doubtless generally distributed in Ireland, though 

 not very commonly. I have received specimens from counties Antrim, 

 Donegal, Sligo, Eoscommon (Athlone and Mote Park), Kerry (Kil- 

 larney, Kenmare, and Yentry), Cork (Skibbereen), Kildare (Borris), 

 "Wicklow (Bray), and Dublin. Adults have been found in March, 

 -May, June, July, August, and November. This spider is widely dis- 

 tributed in Great Britain, ranging at least as far as Oban. It is the 

 only species of a Mediterranean genus which extends northward into 

 Scandinavia, while it is widely distributed over Central Europe 

 (France, Spain, northern Italy, Germany, Austria, northern, eastern, 

 ^nd western Hungary). 



Segestria senoculafa (L.). 



Ulster, Connaught, Munster, Leinster, 



Common all over the country, specimens having been taken in 

 numerous localities from Dublin to Galway and from Donegal and 

 Derry to Kerry. The range of the species extends into the far south- 

 western peninsulas (Ventry, "Waterville, Berehaven), as well as into 

 the western islands (Achill, Inishmore (Aran), and Inish M'Dara, near 

 Boundstone). Specimens in all stages of growth are to be found at 

 all seasons of the year. It is a widely distributed spider in Great 

 Britain, ranging north at least to Inverness, while on the Continent 

 it inhabits northern and central Europe, ranging south at least to 

 north-western Spain and southern Italy. 



