72 ON SOME RARE ARACHNIDS 



Oligolophus Hansenii (Kr^ep.). Mr. Bennett found an 

 adult female at Hastings in October. Mr. Britten took 

 both sexes at Penrith in the same month. His examples 

 were found on the tips of the branches of conifers. 



Anelasmocephalus Gambridgii (Westr.). A single 

 specimen was found under a stone on the Isle of Port- 

 land. Mr. Cambridge* records this species as having 

 been taken b)^ me in Cheshire. The specimens were 

 really found by Mr. Bennett in Sussex. 



CHERNETIDEA 



Chernes rufeolus (Sim.). This form appears widely dis- 

 tributed, and occurs amongst stable refuse. Mr. Falconer 

 obtained a male at Haltwhistle, Mr. Britten both sexes at 

 Penrith, and I found both sexes in a cowshed in Delamere 

 Forest. 



Chernes nodosus (Schranck). Mr. Shufifiebottom of 

 Chester took between twenty and thirty specimens in 

 Hoole. All these were attached to the legs of flies caught 

 on fly papers. Fly papers in several other parts of 

 Chester did not yield any specimens of the Arachnid. 

 All these examples were obtained in August and 

 September. All were attached to the legs of the housefly, 

 and in no case was any other Chernetid found in such a 

 situation. On one fly were two examples of C. nodosus. 

 At the end of September when the wet weather commenced 

 the supply suddenly ceased, although flies were still 

 numerous. In December, Mr. F. J. Cole, of University 

 College, Reading, sent me fifty-five examples of this 

 species. These were not taken by himself, and he does 

 not know where they were found. 



Chernes cimicioides (Fabr.). One adult and two very 

 young examples were found under the bark of an old oak 

 tree growing on the banks of the River Dee. September. 



* " Oil Some New and Rare British Ai'aclmida," Proc. Dorset Field Club 

 vyl. xxviii., 1C07. 



