62 ON SOME RARE ARACHNIDS 



The males can be separated readily by the presence of the 

 aforesaid tooth on the falces, and by the differences in the 

 palpi. If these appendages be viewed from below, it will be 

 seen that the corneus apophyses, and teeth situated at the 

 apex are quite differently arranged from the corresponding 

 organs in M. minutus (see fig. 17). The tibife of the palpi, 

 too, are quite different, those of M. Falconerii being a little 

 produced over the tarsi ; and the whole palpi are in the present 

 species much slenderer and less massive than in its congener. 

 Cephalic eminences and post-ocular strife are not present. 



I found both sexes of Maro Falconerii amongst moss in 

 Delamere Forest, Cheshire, in May, 1907. After I had dis- 

 covered that the species was new to science, Mr. Falconer 

 sent me three examples of the female. One of these he had 

 found in June, 1906, in Delamere Forest, whilst staying with 

 me, the other two he obtained near Huddersfield in April, 

 1907. I have pleasure in connecting his name with this small 

 and very interesting creature, which appears to me to be 

 congeneric with Maro 77iimitus (Camb.). 



Gongylidiellum paganum (Sim.) Plate IV., figs 14 



and 15. 



A male and several females were sent to me by Mr. D. R. 

 Pack-Beresford, by whom they were found on long grass and 

 low bushes growing under fir trees in March, 1907, at 

 Bagenalstown in County Carlow. The same gentleman also 

 sent me several examples of both sexes which he had obtained 

 at the same spot amongst leaf debris in the following October. 

 Mr. Cambridge* records the occurrence of a male captured 

 near Huddersfield by Mr. Falconer. Later, Mr. Falconer sent 

 me a female which at the time I supposed to be of this species, 

 but which owing to doubts I did not record as such. I have 

 compared this example with those Mr. Pack-Beresford caught 

 in the company of males of G. paganum (Sim.), and there is no 

 doubt as to their identity. I now record the occurrence of the 



* " On New and Rare British Spiders," Proc. Dors. Field Club, vol. xxiv., 1904, 

 p. 165, fig. 7. 



