6864 Arachnida. 



him last year. This is only the second record of the occurrence of 

 " D. lapidicolens " since its insertion in the list of British spiders, 

 by Ihe^late Dr. Leach. 



Family Ciniflonid^. 

 Ciniflo ferox [Koch). The British species hitherto l^novvn as Ciniflo 

 ferox turns out, on the capture of the true " ferox " of Koch, at 

 Portland, in September last, to be a distinct species ; to which 

 Mr. Blackwall has therefore given a fresh name, " similis." C. ferox 

 {Koch), was captured at Portland by myself in 1857, and since again 

 in September, 1H59, and has also been taken at Bradford by Mr. 

 Meade, but it has not until now been recorded as a native of Britain. 



Family Theridiid^. 



Theridion riparium. An adult male of this distinctly^ marked 

 species was captured and sent me, from Bath, in July, 1859, by my 

 friend T. W. Huthwaite. 



T. pictum. I found an adult female of this rare and handsome 

 spider on a holly-bush at Formby Parsonage, near Liverpool, in June, 

 1859 ; and subsequently I found it tolerably abundant in a green- 

 house and on holly-bushes at Birkdale Park, Southport : only one 

 previous instance has been recorded of its capture in Britain. 



T. Carolinum. This species, though local, is abundant in many 

 places on the sand hills, Southport, at the base of grass-stems and 

 other herbage, in May and June : I also beat several off a Scotch 

 fir-tree on Simmons-wood Moss, near Liverpool, in June, 1859. It is 

 a very pretty, but very variable species. 



T. pallens. On Scotch firs, Simmons-wood Moss, June, 1589, and 

 in September of the same year ; abundant on laurels in the Rectory 

 Gardens, Milton, Northamptonshire ; its curiously shaped egg- 

 cocoons were fixed to the under sides of the laurel-leaves. 



T. variegatum. Found sparingly, together with its beautiful pear- 

 shaped egg-cocoons, among grass and rubbish on the sand hills, 

 Southport, during the summer of 1859. 



T. signatum. An immature male of this anomalous-looking The- 

 ridion, taken under a piece of rock at Portland, in October, 1859. 



Family Linyphiid^. 

 Linyphia vivax. Specimens of this species were sent me from 

 Bath (together with other rare and local spiders), in October, 1859, 

 by T. W. Fluthwaite. 



