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Mount Talbot, county of Eoscommon ; and Clonbrock, county of Gral- 

 way ; wliile in Connemara it is exceedingly abundant on tbe hill-slopes 

 and lake-sbores, extending as far west as Eoundstone, but seemiagly 

 not to tbe western islets. In Munster it is more local, being known 

 only from Crumaglaun and the hill-slopes around the Upper Lake of 

 Killarney, where the late Mr. A. Gr. More (1889) was the first to recog- 

 nise it as an Irish species. All the specimens known to me have been 

 obtained in June, July, and August. In July the spider can be 

 observed in all stages of growth from the tiny young just hatched 

 from the eggs. It appears therefore that the species takes more than 

 a year to attain its full size. 



It is a very local species in Great Eritain, recorded, I believe, 

 only from Dorset, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, N'or- 

 thumberland, and Perthshire. On the Continent it inhabits JS'orway 

 (to 70° ]S". lat.), Finland, Sweden, Eussia (south to the Crimea), 

 Denmark, Belgium, France (from the north-east across to Bordeaux, 

 but apparently absent in the north-west and south-east), Germany, 

 Switzerland, northern Italy, Greece, the Caucusus, Turkestan, and 

 eastern Siberia. 



Ltjcosa pulveriilenta (CI.). 



L. rapax^ Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Ulster, Connaught, Munster, Leinster. 



This species is widely distributed over Ireland and fairly common, 

 extending from the most northerly localities (including Eathlin 

 Island, county Antrim) far to the south and into the Cork and Kerry 

 peninsulas (Skibbereen, Berehaven, Dingle) as well as into Conne- 

 mara and Inishmore, Aran. It ascends to 2000 feet on the mountains. 

 In the east I have seen specimens from counties of Louth, Dublin, 

 Wicklow, and Carlow. Adult females have been found in January and 

 March, and from May till August ; males in May. Immature indi- 

 viduals occur in March and April, and also in August, September, and 

 October. It is probably universally distributed in Great Britain. I 

 have seen specimens from the Taroe Islands. On the Continent it 

 ranges from 70° l!^. lat. in IS"orway and from Eussian Lapland to 

 ITorth Africa and Syria. 



Lycosa perita (Latr.) 



L.picta, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Ulster, Connaught, Munster, Leinster. 



This spider probably occurs on sandhills all round the Irish coast. 

 I have seen sj)ecimens from counties of Antrim, Derry, Donegal, Mayo 

 (AchiU Island), Galway (including Inishmore, Aran), Kerry (Yentry), 



