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Micaria pulicaria (Sund.). 



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



Ulster, Counauglit, Leinster. 



Apparently a scarce spider in Ireland. Specimens have "been taken 

 only at Colra Glen and Islandmagee, county of Antrim ; Armagh ; 

 Achill Island, county of '^sLo.jo ; Killencoole, county of Louth ; and 

 Carrickmiaes, county of Dublin. Adult in June. This species is 

 widely distributed in Great Britaia ranging north as far as the 

 Grampians at least. It inhabits Sweden, France (Channel Islands 

 and Corsica), Germany, Austria, Hungary, and northern Italy. 



Agroiica proxima, Cb. 



Ulster, Connaught, ^Mlunster, Leinster. 



Apparently a local spider in Ii'eland, though widespread. I have 

 but few localities : Portrush ; Keishconnor, county of Sligo ; Limerick ; 

 Portraiae, Portmamock, and Xorth Bull, county of Dublin. Mr. 

 Workman records it (1880) doubtfully from Care Hill, Belfast. Adult 

 in July and August. The earthen egg-cocoons attached to rushes with 

 young spiders just hatched were found by jlilr. E. I^eale near Limerick 

 in July, 1897. The only British localities for this spider are Dorset, 

 Ediaburgh, and Oban. In Erance it is generally distributed, but most 

 common in the north ; it is a rery rare spider in Austria, and does not 

 seem to have been recognized elsewhere on the Continent. 



Agroeca celans (BL). 



Agelena celans, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Leinster. 



The only Irish specimen of this spider is an immature male which 

 I took in the Devil's Glen, near "Wicklow, July, 1892. It is a rarity 

 in Great Britain, recorded only from Dorset, north Wales, and Carlisle. 

 On the Continent it is generally distributed in Erance, and has occurred 

 in^Croatia and northern Italy. 



' Agroeca gracilipes (BL). 



Agelena gracilq^es, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Ulster, Connaught. 



I have seen only two examples of this spider in Ireland, an imma- 

 ture male taken by the Eev. W. E. Johnson at Armagh in May, 1895, 

 and an immature female collected at Boundstone, county of Galway, 

 for the R. I. A. Elora and Eauna Committee by Mr. J. jST. Halbert ia 

 April, 1896. In Great Britain A. gracilipes has been found in the 

 south of England (Dorset, Hants), and in Scotland (Ediaburgh, 



