52 NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS 



Scotland, but no doubt it occurs commonly on the 

 mountains. The present specimen occurred at about 

 i, 800 feet. 



*Cnephalocotes curtus Sim. An adult female, Findhorn 

 links. Both sexes on the coast at Fenham, Northum- 

 berland. 



Cnephalocotes ambiguus Cb. Plentiful on the mud-flats 

 on the southern shore of Findhorn Bay. The only 

 previous record is of the type specimen (a male) which 

 was taken in the Isle of Arran by Mr. W. Evans. The 

 female is therefore new. Mr. Pickard-Cambridge has 

 undertaken to describe and figure it. 



Cnephalocotes incurvatus Cb. Northumbrian coast, 

 near Cresswell ; Findhorn links : an adult female in 

 each place. This sex was previously unknown (see 

 description below, and plate ii., fig. 20). 



*Cnephalocotes interjectus Cb. Northumbrian coast, 

 Beadnell ; plentiful. 



Lophocarenum parallelum Bl. Both sexes, Ross links, 

 June. 



Hilaira nubigena n. sp. 



Plate II., figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13. 



Male. — Cephalothorax 2' jo mm. long, greatest width 1-52 

 mm. Frons flattened, nearly horizontal, sparsely sprinkled 

 with bristles, the longest of them being in the median line. 

 Occipital tuber dome-shaped, sloping more steeply in front 

 than behind, traversed by a median line of longish bristles. 



Eyes comparatively small. Upper row strongly procurved; 

 the middle interval about two-thirds of the lateral, slightly 

 Concave. Lateral eyes on prominent tubercles, the anterior 

 occupying the summit and its fellow the posterior slope, the 

 former being the longest of the eight. Clypeus vertical, rather 

 higher than the ocular quadrangle is long. 



