A LIST OF THE ARANEIDEA OF 
CUMBERLAND AND THE LAKE DISTRICT. 
REV. FREDK. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE. 
Since the year 1875 no list has been published of the spiders of 
the northern counties of England. In February of that year a list 
of the species collected in Berwickshire and Northumberland was 
drawn up by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, including the names 
of 145 species taken in the latter county. 
Having made a few small collections myself in the neighbouring 
counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, including the Lake 
District, I have thought that it might be interesting to northern 
naturalists if a complete list were published of the Araneidea of this 
district, including in an appendix those from the Rev. O. Pickard- 
Cambridge’s List which do not occur in my own, 
I have considered it better not to incorporate these latter with 
those from the two western counties, because, geographically, 
Cumberland and Westmorland pair very well with each other as 
balancing Northumberland and Durham on the eastern side of the 
Pennine Chain; while further south, Lancashire and Yorkshire form 
very convenient separate areas of themselves. 
The Araneidal Fauna of the northern counties of England is so 
far similar to that of the Lowlands of Scotland (roughly speaking, 
the area cut off by a line drawn from Glasgow on the west to 
Edinburgh on the east), that I should not think my duty to 
arachnology complete were I to omit making some mention of the 
valuable lists which have already appeared of the species taken in 
this district, including also some few species taken in the more 
northern regions of Scotland. 
The first list was published by Mr. James oe in 1858. 
ce List of Berwickshire Spiders.’ Proc. Berwickshire Nat. 
Club, vol. iv., pp. 92-96, 1858. 
The second by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1861-62. 
* Sketch of an Arachnological Tour in Scotland in 1861, with a List 
of Scotch Spiders. Zoologist, pp. 8,041—8,051, 1862. This same 
list was published also in the Entomologist under the following title: 
‘On the Spiders of Scotland; with a List of Species” Entomologist, 
1877. 
A third list was issued by the same author in 1875. ‘List of 
the Araneidea and Phalangidea, collected tated mest — ant 
1874, in Berwickshire and Northumberland, by Mr. Jame ray. 
Proc. Berwickshire Nat. Club, vol. vii., pp. aa. 1875. 
Jan. 1895. 
