Carpenter — A List of the Spiders of Ireland. 137 



Prosthesima Latreillei, Simon. 



Ulster, Munster, Leinster. 



This spider seems to be widespread and not rare over tlie greater 

 part of Ireland. Mr. Workman's collection contains specimens from 

 Colin Glen, county of A.ntrim, and Craigdarragh, county of Down, while 

 I haye received specimens from Limerick ; Cratloe, county of Clare ; 

 Kenmare and Dingle, county of Kerry ; Skibbereen, county of Cork \ 

 Lismore, county of Waterford (1894) ; and Drogheda. It is remark- 

 able that T have never met with the spider in the counties of Dublin 

 and Wicklow. Adult females, guarding their egg-cocoons, are to be 

 observed in June and July, and half -grown individuals in September. 

 This is a rare species in Great Britain, having only been recorded from 

 the south of England (Isle of Wight, Dorset, Salisbury), but I have 

 seen specimens from the Isle of Man and from Westmoreland. On the 

 Continent, P. Latreillei inhabits northern and eastern Prance, southern 

 Germany, Austria, and Hungary. 



Prosthesima pusilla (Koch). 



Drassus pusillus, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Prosthesima nigrita, Cb. (Spid. Dorset). 



Ulster, Connaught, Leinster. 



This appears to be a scarce species in Ireland, yet not so rare 

 here as in Great Britain. It has occurred in the county of Antrim 

 (Portrush and Giant's Causeway) ; at Londonderry ; Coolmore, county 

 of Donegal ; Inishmore (Aran), Galway Bay ; and Tallaght, county of 

 Dublin. Adult females were observed in July, and immature specimens 

 in April. The only Biitish localities for P. pusilla are Dorset, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, ISTorthumberland, and Edinburgh. Abroad it inhabits 

 Sweden, France (north and east), Switzerland, Bavaria, Tyrol, Italy, 

 Austria, and Hungary. 



Brassodes lapidosus (Koch). 



Brassus lapidicolens. Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Leinster. 



Evidently a rare and local species in Ireland. Mr. Fred. 0. P. 

 Cambridge has kindly examined most of our Brassi of this group ; and 

 the only examples which he refers to this species were taken on the 

 summit of Carrickgallagher, near Shankill, county of Dublin. The 

 rest of the specimens in the Dublin Museum belong to the next 

 species, B. cupreus, which has until recently been confounded with 

 this by arachnologists, though Blackwall discriminated between them. 



