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on the hills. Adults are to be found in all months from April 

 till October; but are most numerous in July, August, and September, 

 during which months young and immature specimens are also most 

 frequently to be met with. Its British and general distribution are 

 those of the preceding species ; it has, moreover, been foujid in the 

 Azores. 



Meta Menardii, Latr. 



I]peira fusca, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



"Ulster, Connaught, Munster, Leinster, 



This spider is evidently rare in Ireland, though it seems to be 

 widely distributed, llr. B. "Welch captured a female with a cocoon 

 full of newly-hatched yoirag at Castlewellan, county of Down, in 

 October, 1897. Mr. H. L. Jameson (1896) found it in cave-entrances 

 at Enniskillen, in July, 1895, as well as at Keishconnor, county of 

 Sligo, in July, 1894. Mr. Praeger brought me adults of both sexes 

 from Inishmurray, off the coast of the county of Sligo, in June, 1896. 

 Mr. "W". F. de V. Kane took a female at Kenmare, county of Kerry, in 

 June, 1895, and a male on the cliffs of Howth, county of Dublin, 

 in June, 1892. Immature females were found at Cloonee Lough, 

 county of Kerry, in July, 1898. There is a female from Lismullen, 

 county of Meath, in the Templeton collection. This spider is only 

 recorded from E'orth "Wales, Isle of Man, Durham, Aberdeen, and Ben 

 Aan, in Great Britain, though it is generally distributed in Erance, and 

 occnrs in southern IS^onvay (61° IS", lat.), Sweden, Gennany, Austria, 

 and Hungary (north, east, and west), Italy, Korth America, and 

 Madagascar. 



Cydosa conica (Pall.). 



Epeira conica^ Bl. (Spid. G.B. I.). 



Connaught. 



The only Irish examples of this species are a female taken at 

 Loughrea, county of Galway, in August, 1 893, by Mr. W. P. deV. Kane, 

 and an immature female, taken at Clonbrock, county of Galway, by 

 the Hon. E. E. Dillon, in the summer of 1897. In Great Britain 

 this spider ranges northwards to Banffshire and Invemess-shire, while 

 on the Continent it extends from IST. lat. 65° in E"orway to northern 

 Italy. 



Singa pyymcea (Sund.) 



Epeira anthracina + E. Jlerii (in part), Bl. (Spid. G. B. L). 

 Leinster. 



The only Dish locality for this species is TuUamore, King's County, 

 where two females were taken in June, 1893, by Mr. J. I^. Halbert. 



