98 CATALOGUE OF TJIE SPIDFBS OF 



fine Spicier within our area. It constructs a tubular retreat in 

 the panicle of a reed or tall grass in boggy places, or by stil) 

 water. The snare is, if possible, hung vertically over the surface 

 of water, the suspension threads being sometimes nearly a yard 

 in length. Adult at the end of summer. 



Epeira umbratica, (Clk.). 



Araneus umbraticus^ Clk. Sv. Spindl., p. 31, pi. I., tab. 7. 

 Epeira umbratica, Bl. Op. cit., p. 333, pi. XXIV., fig. 241. 



N. Langleyford, adult females. I have not yet met with it 

 in either county. It is a nocturnal Spider, hiding by day in 

 crevices of buildings, under loose bark of fallen trees, and similar 

 places ; but its web, coarsely constructed of large and irregular 

 mesh, betrays its presence. It may readily be recognised by its 

 flattened abdomen and dingy hue. Adult in late summer. 



Family YII. THOMISIDAE (9 species). 



XYSTICUS, C. L. Iv. 

 Xysticus crista tus, (Clk.). 



Aranens cristatus, Clk. Sv. Spindl., p. 136, pi. VI., tab. 6. 

 Thomisus cristatus, Bl. Op. cit., p. 68, pi. IV., fig. 38. 



N. Langleyford and elsewhere in North Northumberland. 

 Very common elsewhere at the roots of herbage. D. Adult 

 females have been taken under stones on the top of Widdy Bank 

 Fell, Upper Teesdale, in spring. 



Xysticus viaticus, C. L. K. 



Xysticus viaticus, C. L. K. Die Araclin., vol. XII., p. 70, pi. 



412, figs. 1003-4. 

 N. Wooler and South Middleton Dean. Adult females. 



Xysticus lanio, C. L. K. 



Thomisus lanio, Cambridge. Zoologist (1861), p. 7557 and 



(1862), p. 7946, 

 ,, ,, Id. Spiders of Dorset, p. 303, pi. v., fig. 1. 



N. Cheviot Hill, an adult female. 



