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apparently confined in Great Britain to Scotland (Perth, Aberdeen),, 

 the north of England, and l^orth Wales, though it ranges on the 

 Continent from the far north of [N'orway and Finland to southern 

 France, and eastern Hungary, and Turkestan. 



Pardosa monticola, Koch. 



Lycosa exigua (in part), Bl. (Spid, Gr. B. I.) 



Connaught, Leinster. 



This spider has only been found in Ireland on the east and west 

 coasts : — at Dollymount, Sutton, and Portmarnock, county of Dublin; 

 Brittas Bay, county of "Wicklow ; Gentian Hill, Eoundstone, and 

 Inish. M'Dara, county of Galway. It is adult from May till August. 

 It is widely distributed in Great Britain (Dorset, Aberdeen) ; on 

 the Continent it ranges from the north of Finland and ]N"orway to 

 southern France, Italy, and Croatia. According to M. Simon, it is in 

 France characteristic of the Channel shores and the alpine meadows, 

 being commoner than P. ^Ja^ustris in the Pyrenees. 



Pardosa ptirheckensis, F. Cb. 



Connaught. 



The only known Irish example of this spider is an adult female- 

 taken by me at Gentian Hill, near Galway, in July, 1895, wbile 

 collecting for the Eoyal Irish Academy Flora and Fauna Committee. 

 The species was described by Mr. F. Cambridge (1895) from specimens 

 taken on the shores of Poole Harbour, Dorset, and the Solway Firth. 

 It is very closely allied to P. vionticola, but larger. Apparently it 

 has not yet been recognized on the Continent. 



Pardosa palustris (Linn.). 



Lycosa exigua, Bl. (Spid. G. B. I.), in part. 



L. palustris, Cb. (Spid. Dorset). 



Ulster, Munster. Leinster. 



This species is common and widely distributed over the greater 

 part of Ireland. It ranges from counties of Antrim (Eathlin Island), 

 Deny and Donegal to "Wicklow and Cork (Berehaven) ; from Dublin 

 to th.e soutb-western peninsulas (Derrynane, Mount Brandon) ; and 

 ascends to 2000 feet on the hills. Adult males occur in Ireland from 

 May until July, females until September. It is of general occurrence 

 in Great Britain and very widely distributed in northern Europe (71° 

 jSr. lat. in Norway), extending to the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and- 

 Novaya Zemla, and southward to the Pyrenees (where it is scarcer- 

 than P. monticola), southern Germany, central Hungary, and eastward- 

 to Turkestan and the Amur. 



