PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE:! ARANEIDEA OF CUMBERLAND, ETC. ar 
Within these comparatively narrow limits we can explore the 
deep, richly-wooded, red sand-stone gorges, through which wind and 
fall the swift currents of the Eden, the Irthing and the Caldew, their 
margins and dells encrusted with rocks and scattered stones, or 
dankly dripping with tufted water herbage in the deep still defiles ; 
we can roam over the vast stretches of thinly clad alluvial deposits 
which mark the blending of fresh and salt waters along the shores of 
the Solway Firth, and note the regiments of godwits, oystercatchers 
and other waders, as fringing the ebbing tide they peep and dibble 
for their daily food. Further south we can tramp laboriously over 
wind-driven sand-dunes, the crisp, whistling ‘marram grass’ 
striking accurate circumferences on the sand, as the blades bend and 
gyrate with the breeze; we can climb the lower fell-sides, knee-deep 
in heather, and capture forms familiar to us in the far heath districts 
of the south, or startle to flight the unaccustomed northern grouse. 
Higher still we can mount into the weird upper-fastnesses of the 
slate-foundationed hills, where snow—alas for us—is not eternal, 
though we are proud to think that here it ‘sometimes lingers into 
June’; and hence, finally, we can allow ourselves to sink gently 
down the silent passes into the verdure-clad Borrowdale, where, amid 
foods and comforts for the body, we may reflect, that though maybe 
the garden of England lies in the far south-east, yet the glory of 
England assuredly is set in the extreme north-west. 
It will be very obvious to those who have tramped over this 
region, rich in variety of soil and growth, that here too, we may 
expect a like variety of creeping things, and of these too, abundantly. 
Neither shall we be disappointed, for although the appended list of 
the ‘ Araneidea’ is so meagre, we must remember that with merely 
a month’s collecting at scattered intervals in the Lakes, and a few 
days every spring for three or four years in the neighbourhood of 
Carlisle, we are not likely to be able to give more than a ben poor 
account of the Spider-Fauna of this charming count 
There are numbers of species yet to be Giacbirered, many of 
them probably new to science, at all seasons of the year in each 
of these well-marked areas ; for even during the casual opportunities. 
I have been able to avail myself of, no less than ten species have 
been taken, of which five are new to science and the rest to the 
British List. 
Of the 184 species recorded, we may mention amongst the rarest 
and most interesting AMyptiotes paradoxus; Lycrsa spinipalpis, 
n. sp.; Pardosa purbeckensis, n. sp. ; oat ‘ypheca diversa, n. Sp. 
athyphantes setiger,n.sp.; Oreoneta niger,n.sp.; Lepthyphantes 
pinicola, new to Brit. List ; Lepiley esr denebriveta; new to Brit. List ; 
Jan. 1895. 
