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are to be found in snares. The centre of the snare is 

 usually very irregular, but this varies a good deal. The 

 periphery, and in fact the major part of the web is 

 regular, and the spiral is studded with viscid globules, 

 as in the related Epeiras and Tetragnathae. The snares 

 of this animal have not previously been observed in 

 Britain, and it is not yet certain that the species is 

 identical with either the Continental or the American 

 form. 



Dictyna pusilla (Westr.). Burnham Beeches. New Forest. 

 Only one or two examples in each locality. 



Dictyna variabilis (C. L. Koch). A pair were obtained 

 in the New Forest. 



Protadia patula (Sim.) An immature but fully grown 

 male was found at Saltney Ferry on the Dee amongst 

 water-borne debris on November ist. 



Order OPILIONES 



Sclerosoma quadridentatum (Cuv.). 



Sclerosoma romanum (L. Koch). 



Professor Kulczynski informs me that he considers the 

 latter animal merely the young of the former. I think 

 this is very likely, though it had never struck me before. On 

 May 31st I found eight or ten specimens in a tuft of long 

 grass at Cudham. Of these there were one or two 

 undoubted examples of qvadridentahim, the others were 

 smaller, some very small, and were what have been called 

 foinaimiii in the past. Amongst some specimens found 

 at Sidmouth in 1907 the same thing was noticed. More 

 investigations are of course necessary, but I think Prof. 

 Kulczynski's view will be found correct. 



Oligolophus Meadii (Camb.). Two males and a ferhale 

 under stones on the shore at Burton Point near the Dee 

 Estuary in Cheshire, October. 



