446 NOTES ON SPIDERS 



Notes on Spiders 



By the Rev. J. E. Hull, M.A. 



(With Plate XII.) 



In the following notes of recent captures four species 

 (marked with an asterisk in the list below) are now recorded 

 for the first time for Northumberland, bringing the county 

 total up to 293. It is a great satisfaction to be able to correct 

 a mistake made in my last year's paper on " Allendale 

 Spiders " with regard to the female of the new species Hilaira 

 pei'vicax. 



Prosthesima nigrita Fabr. In considerable number on 

 the sandhills north and south of North Sunderland in 

 September, 1908; all immature, of course, at that period. 

 Taken by Dr. Hardy in the Wooler district in 187 1. 



Bolyphantes expunctus Cb. I have received, among 

 other spiders collected in the neighbourhood of the 

 Moray Firth in August, 190S, an adult pair of this 

 interesting species. This is, I think, the fourth record 

 for Scotland. It has not been met with elsewhere in the 

 British Isles, and the only Continental record is for 

 Hungary. It is much smaller than its congeners, 

 measuring barely 2 mm. in length ; nor does the male 

 possess the characteristic thickened spine of the palpal 

 patella which distinguishes B. alticeps and B. hdeobis, 

 the spine in B. expu/ictits being exactly similar to that of 

 Leptyphantes angiilatvs, Cb. It would appear that this 

 species attains maturity towards the end of August, for 

 some examples were taken which had not yet undergone 

 their final moult. As no British figures of the male have 

 been published, I now supply them. 



Leptyphantes flavipes Bl. Probably a commoner species 

 than is generally supposed. I have taken it in several 

 places in West Allen, and have received it from Coquet- 

 dale and from Middlesbrough. 



