PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE : ARANEIDEA OF CUMBERLAND, ETC. 33 
physical constitution and consequent climatic temperament should 
afford us a fauna of a somewhat different nature to that to which we 
are accustomed on the limestone and chalk-formations of the South 
of England. 
One must not, however, venture to speculate too freely in this 
direction, because we have not as yet nearly enough data for the 
building up of theories concerning racial varieties peculiar to different 
geological formations, or even to hastily point to this or that species 
Or group of species as exclusively characteristic of the Lake and 
Mountain country. I can, however, point to a few species which, 
pending further information, may be regarded as peculiar not only to 
our own hill-country, but also, many of them, characteristic of the hill- 
districts of the Continent, as for instance, the sub-alpine regions of 
France, the Austrian Tyrol, the mountains of Tatra, Silesia, Galicia, 
and the Highlands of Germany; namely, Bolyphantes alticeps, 
Lepthyphantes tenebricola, L. pinicola, L. lepida (Glasgow), L. angulata, 
L. whympert (Ben Nevis), Micryphantes sublimis, Porrhomma 
adipatum, Oreoneta niger and Pardosa traillit. 
With these few preliminary remarks we will proceed with a 
Systematic List of the various species found in Cumberland and the 
Lake District. 
Order. ARANEIDEA. 
ARANEAL VERA! CRIBELLATA:. 
Fam. ULOBORIDA. 
Hyptiotes paradoxus C.L.K. Lake District. A single female, 
taken in the Lake District of Cumberland by Mr. J. Hodg- 
kinson in the year 1863, was, until this year, 1894, the only 
specimen of this extraordinary spider recorded for Great Britain. 
Males and females, adult, were taken in the New Forest in 
August 1894, by Mr. C. Warburton, of Christ’s College, 
Cambridge. The specimen taken by Mr. Hodgkinson was 
presented to me by Mr. R. H. Meade, of Bradford, and is now 
in my collection. 
Fam. DICTYNID. 
Amaurobius ferox Walck. Eden Valley. A few specimens only, 
in Carlisle. 
Amaurobius similis Blk. Eden Valley, Solway, and Lake 
District. Abundant in quarries, on walls around farm- 
buildings ; in the crevices of the red-sandstone cliffs all through 
the Eden Valley; and amongst the slate cliffs of the Lake 
District. Carlisle, Gilsland, Helvellyn, Elterwater. Adult from 
April to September. 
Feb, 1895. ; - 
