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In Great Britain it ranges from Dorset into Scotland (Perthshire). 

 On the Continent it extends from Christiania, in Norway, to the 

 Mediterranean. 



Singa sanguinea, Koch. 



Epeira Rerii (in part), Bl. (Spid. Gr. B. I.). 



Connaught. 



A female, taken in June, 1896, at Clonbrock, county of Galway, 

 hy Mr. J. E". Halbert, is the only Irish example of this spider which 

 I have yet seen. In Great Britain it seems confined to the south of 

 England (Dorset, Hants). It inhabits western and southern France, 

 <3rermany, Austria, and Hungary. 



Zilla x-notata (CI.). 



Epeira similis, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Ulster, Connaught, Munster, Leinster. 



This is a very common spider in the counties of Dublin and 

 "Wicklow, and is probably generally distributed over the central parts of 

 Ireland to Connemara and Inishmore, Aran, where I took a remarkably 

 dark form of the female in July, 1895. According to Mr. Workman 

 (1880) it is common near Belfast. I have received it from Armagh 

 and Carlingford, but not from Londonderry nor from the county of 

 Donegal. So far as our present evidence goes, it is absent from the 

 far south-west ; the only Munster locality I can certify is Limerick. 

 Probably the eggs remain unhatched through the winter, as very 

 young individuals occur in May ; they are half-grown in June, and 

 begin to be adult in July ; thence, until September, adults are abun- 

 dant, and I have found a female so late as !N"ovember. Very common 

 in England, this spider ranges to the far north of Scotland. On the 

 Continent it extends from southern JM'orway (60°) to the Azores and 

 the Mediterranean, occurring also in JS'orth America. 



Zilla atrica (Koch). 



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



Ulster, Connaught, Munster, Leinster. 



Erom the evidence at my disposal, this spider seems common in the 

 northern half of Ireland, but rare in the south. It has been found in the 

 counties of Donegal, Derry, Antrim, Cavan, Armagh, Boscommon, 

 Galway, Louth, and Dublin ; but my only southern locality is Cloonee 

 Lough, near Kenmare. It appears to reach maturity rather later than 

 the preceding species ; I have never found an adult before August, and 

 both sexes are abundant through September and October. I am able 



