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Dorset, Buckinghamsliire, Durham, and Cumberland. Abroad it 

 inhabits southern Norway and Sweden, the Channel Islands, northern 

 France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, northern and central Hungary, 

 northern, central, and southern Russia, and Turkestan. 



Pirata piscatorius (Clerck). 



Leinster. 



A female taken on Braganstown Bog, county of Louth, by Mr. 

 H. L. Jameson, in April, 1893, is the only Irish example of this 

 species I have yet seen. In Great Britain it is recorded only from 

 Norfolk and Dorset. Abroad it is found in Iceland, Norway and 

 Sweden, north-eastern France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, 

 Austria, northern and eastern Hungary, and central Russia. 



Pirata piraticus ( Clerck) . 



Lycosa piratica, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Ulster, Connaught, Munster, Leinster. 



This spider is common and widely distributed over the greater 

 part of Ireland. I have records ranging from the county of Antrim 

 (Fair Head), Londonderry, and Donegal to the counties of "Wexford 

 (Ballyhyland), and Kerry (Killarney) ; from the counties of Dublin 

 (Howth) and Wicklow (including the summit of Lugnaquilla, over 

 3000 feet) to Athleague and Mount Talbot, county of Roscommon ; 

 Ballymote, county of Sligo ; and Limerick. The species has not, 

 however, been found in Connemara, nor in any of the south-western 

 peninsulas of the counties of Cork and Kerry. Adults are found from 

 May till September, the female with egg-bags in July and August. 

 Very young spiders, newly hatched, occur in January, half-grown 

 Bpecimens in summer time, immature individuals in autumn and 

 spring ; hence it seems that the eggs laid in summer hatch out during 

 winter, and that the spider takes eighteen months to reach maturity. 

 It is probably generally distributed throughout Great Britain, while 

 it ranges from Novaya Zemla and the far north of Norway and Russia 

 to Algeria and Syria. 



Pardosa agricola (Thorell). 



Lycosa fluviatilis, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.). 



Ulster, Munster, Leinster. 



Widespread, but scarce in Ireland. The only localities known to 

 me are Rostrevor, county of Down ; Drogheda, county of Louth ; 

 Bray, county of Wicklow ; and Dingle, county of Kerry. Adult 

 females from May till July ; in May with egg-bags, and in July 

 carrying the family of newly-hatched spiders. This is another species 



