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Family. — Oonopid^. 

 Oonops pulclier, Templeton. 



Ulster, Connauglit, Munster, Leinster. 



This little spider, though widespread, is scarce in Ireland.. 

 Specimens have been taken in counties of Down (EathmuUan, Craig- 

 daiTagh), Antrim (Belfast, Islandmagee), Donegal (HathmuUan), Ros- 

 common (Mote Park), Cork (Skibbereen), and Dublin. It is not a 

 common species in Great Britain, though recorded from Dorset, Kent, 

 Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Durham, Northumberland, Westmore- 

 land, Edinburgh, Perthshire, Aberdeen, and Oban. It occurs ia 

 Lapland, the Channel Islands, south-western Europe and the Madeiras- 

 and Italy, but is apparently absent from the fauna of Central Europe^ 



Family. — DEASsiDiE. 

 Frosthesima sulterranea (Koch). 



Drasstis ater, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Frosthesima Fetiverii, Cb. (Spid. Dorset). 



Leinster. 



The only Irish example of this spider known to me is an adult 

 male, taken by Mr. Freeman at Powerscourt, county of Wicklow. 

 According to Mr. "Workman the species was found by Templeton 

 "in the neighbourhood of Dublin." It has a wide distribution in 

 England (Dorset, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Northumberland), but 

 is only recorded from the extreme south of Scotland. According to 

 Simon it ranges over the greater part of Europe (southwards to Naples), 

 and occurs in Siberia and in North America. In southern France it 

 occurs only in mountainous districts (Alps, Auvergnes, Pyrenees), 

 while in Hungary it is recorded only from the Carpathians. 



[Specimens from the county of Clare and Inishmore, Aran, were 

 erroneously recorded by me (1895, ii.) as belonging to this species. 

 They are really referable to the next.] 



Frosthesima longipes (L. Koch). 



Munster, Connaught. 



This spider has, as yet, only been taken in Ireland, near Bally- 

 vaughan, county of Clare, and on Inishmore (Aran Islands, Gal way 

 Bay). The specimens, females not quite mature, were taken in July, 

 1895. In Great Britain this spider has only been recognised in Dorset. 

 On the Continent it inhabits northern and eastern France, southern, 

 Germany, northern and central Hungary, and extends into Siberia. 



