32 PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE: ARANEIDEA OF CUMBERLAND, ETC. 
Lophocarenum mengei, new to Brit. List. ; Corypheus distinctus, new to 
Brit. List; Zetragnatha pinicola, new +5 Brit. List. 
nies traillit, Dendryphantes hastatus, Microneta sublimis, 
Decymbium tibiale, and Agreca celans ; the first Paty third of the last 
five — only the second record for Great Britai 
areas into which I have pavgnly divided this district may be 
eas as follows :— 
L£den Valley District. The valleys through which run the Eden, 
the Caldew, the Esk, and the Irthing, consisting of more or less 
undulating country, richly wooded and clothed with rank vegetation 
in the glens, gradually blending in their upper reaches with the 
heather regions and higher moorlands of the Fell-country. There 
are, of course, regions of somewhat similar character in other parts 
of. the Lake District, formed by the water-courses which empty 
themselves on the west into the Irish Sea, and on the south into 
Morecambe Bay 
The Solway "District is an immense tract of level mud and sand, 
meadow and marsh land, forming ‘the delta’ of the united waters of 
the four rivers mentioned above. And in connection with this must 
be recollected certain areas and spots of a swampy, rushy, gy 
nature, known as the ‘ Mosses,’ amongst which may be noted Solway 
Moss and Newtown Moss, near Penrith. These, in some respects, 
resemble similar localities in the south of England, and their Spider- 
Fauna is, as might be expected, with certain striking exceptions, 
almost identical. 
The Lake District itself is too well known to need _par- 
ticularisation here; it will be sufficient to remark that that whole 
district is included, which can be enclosed in a ‘ring-fence’ by a line. 
connecting the towns, travelling as the sun goes, of Penrith, Shap, 
Kendal, Grange, Ulverston, Bootle, Gosforth, Cleator-Moor, and 
Cockermouth. 
The region of sand-dunes lies to the south of the entrance to the 
Solway Firth, extending, with interruptions, as far as St. Bees, and 
beyond this, further south, with a coast-line of broken character, 
~ until it becomes lost in the vast sand-stretches of Morecambe Bay. 
geology of this district is of a very uniform character, 
consisting entirely of the two forms of slate known as the Skiddaw 
and Green-slates, with an occasional out-crop of Granite, on Scafell 
for instance, and in Wastwater; Syenite in the Ennerdale Valley ; 
with a mere streak of Limestone running from Coniston in the 
direction of Windermere and Long-Sleddale. These geological 
characters, with the New Red-Sandstone of the Eden, Armathwaite 
and Penrith districts, undoubtedly furnish us with a country whose 
