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1875. Rev. 0. P. Cambkidge. ^Northumberland, Berwickshire. 

 This is the list of Berwickshire and l^forthumberland 

 Spiders already referred to. 75 species are recorded for 

 Berwickshire and 143 for T^Torth Northumberland. 



1894. Messrs. G. H. Caepentek and "W. Evans. Edinburgh. 



'^A List of Spiders (^Araneidea) collected in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Edinburgh J^ Proc. Boyal Phys. Soc. of 

 Edinburgh, vol. XII., pp. 527-590, with appendix and 

 plate. 



1895. Mr. F. 0. Pickaed-Cambeidge. Cumberland and Lake 



District. 



" A List of the Araneidea of Cumberland and the Lahe 

 District:' "J^aturalist," Jan., 1895, pp. 29-48. 187 

 species are enumerated. 



In addition to these local lists, various species are recorded 

 from definite localities in the INorth' of England and the South 

 of Scotland, in the following works on British Spiders : — 



1861-64. Mr. J". Blacewall. British Isles. 



^'Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland.'^ Ray Soc. 

 Two vols, "With coloured plates of 273 species. 

 1879-82. Rev. 0. P. Cambkidge, British Isles. 



" Spiders of Dorset.'''' Proc. of the Dorsetshire Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Two vols. Six plates. Descriptions of all 

 British species then known are given, 518 in all. 



The chief intent of this present list of Northumberland and 

 Durham Spiders is to indicate how much remains to be done. 

 There is a wide and finely varied field in the two counties which 

 has been worked only in isolated spots, and that but imperfectly. 

 No one locality has been collected over throughout the year ; 

 and when it is remembered that the various species come to 

 maturity at different seasons, varying from early spring to late 

 autumn, the defective nature of the list from this cause alone 

 will be obvious. 



The incompleteness of our records may also be demonstrated 

 from comparison with other lists. Some 540 British species 

 have been recorded up to the present time. If climatic and 



