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Howth and Lambay Island, county of Dublin, to Eoundstone in Con- 

 nemara ; extending also into the south-western peninsulas (Parkna- 

 silla, Berehayen), and being found 1000 feet up on the hills. Adult 

 females of this species occur all the year round ; males are abundant in 

 May and June, but have been noticed also in April and September. 

 Quite young individuals occur in March, June, July, and December, 

 and immature specimens mostly in August and September. Doubtless 

 this species is equally widespread in Great Britain ; while abroad it 

 ranges from the extreme north of Norway and Finland to the south 

 of Spain and the islands of the Mediterranean, ascending the Alps to 

 a height of 3000 feet. 



Family — AoiiiEis'iD^. 



Cryphoeca sylvicola (Koch). 



Tjgemriasyhicola, | ^j_ ^g .^^^ ^ -^ 

 Ayelena Hyndmarm, ) ^ ' 



Ulster, Connaught, Munster, Leinster. 



A local species in Ireland, but widely spread, and not absent from 

 the south as in Great Britain. Eecordedby Mr. Workman (1880) from 

 Colin Glen, county of Antrim ; it has been sent to me from London- 

 derry (Milne, 1895) ; Belleisle, county of Fermanagh ; and Poyntzpass. 

 Mr. D. W. Freeman has taken the spider in county of Dublin ; Mr. 

 J. N. Halbert found it on the summit of Slieremore, Achill Island, 

 as well as near the Upper Lake of Killarney. I have collected it at 

 Clonbrock, county of Galway. Adults occur in May, July, September. 

 It is remarkable that, in Great Britain, this species seems absent from 

 the south, ranging from the north of Scotland to ISTorfolk, since it is 

 widely distributed on the Continent, occurring from the north of 

 ITorway and Finland to the south of France, Hungary, and Croatia, 

 and extending eastwards to Siberia. 



I have little doubt that Agelena Hyndmanii (described from Tem- 

 pleton's Belfast specimens) is a synonym of this species. Blackwall's 

 figiu'es of the eyes show that the species is not an Ayelena but a 

 Cryphoeca. C. sylvicola often assumes a greenish-brown hue, and an 

 abnormal specimen might very well appear as green as Blackwall's 

 figure, of A. JELyndmanii, which is said in the description to be some- 

 times brown and black. 



Argyroneta aquaiica (CI.). 

 Ulster, Leinster. 



The water-spider is probably not uncommon in the north of Ireland. 

 Mr. Workman records it (1880) from Lurgan ; Kev. W. F. Johnson 



