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List of Araneidea and Phalangidea, collected from October, 

 1871, to October, 1874, in Berwickshire and Northum- 

 berland, by Mr. James Hardy. By the Kev. O. P. 

 Cambridge, M.A., C.M.Z.S. 



The following list has been drawn up at the request of Mr. 

 James Hardy, to whose kind exertions I am indebted for an 

 exceedingly valuable and rich collection of Arachnida 

 (chiefly Araneidea) from various localities in Berwickshire 

 and Northumberland. The list is arranged in accordance 

 with the views expressed in "A Systematic List of the 

 Spiders at present known to inhabit Great Britain and 

 Ireland," published lately in the " Transactions of the 

 Linnsean Society," Vol. xxx., pp. 319-333. To this publica- 

 tion, and others there noted, I must refer those who may 

 desire to ascertain the various additional synonyms of the 

 genera and species now recorded, as well as for references to 

 the works in which they are described or figured. 



The present list contains one-hundred-and-sixty species 

 of Araneidea, and two only of Phalangidea. Of the former, 

 eleven have been described as new to science, and three as 

 new to Britain (see " Linn. Trans.," xxviii., pp. 523-555, pi. 

 xlv., xlvi.) Three other species have since been decided to 

 to be new to science ; and of these three, descriptions are 

 contained in the list below. Of the forty-two genera repre- 

 sented, three (Linyphia,JHeriene, and Walckenaera — compris- 

 ing the Micro- Aranece), monopolize eighty-seven out of the 

 one-hundred-and-sixty species contained in the whole collec- 

 tion. This large proportion is partly to be accounted for by 

 the nature of the localities chiefly searched, — mountain-sides 

 and summits, moor, and waste land ; partly from the time of 

 year, — autumn and spring ; and partly because, in all proba- 

 bility the actual existing proportion of other species to 

 those of these three genera, gets less and less as we advance 

 northwards. Of the four-hundred-and-sixty species of 

 Araneidea up to this time recorded in Great Britain, one- 

 hundred-and-ninety-nine belong to the three genera men- 

 tioned — a proportion considerably smaller than that borne 

 by the eighty-seven species to the total one-hundred-and- 

 sixty of the present list. Thirty-six genera of the known 

 British Spiders are unrepresented in Mr. Hardy's collection. 

 Some of these will, no doubt, be met with in other localities, 

 and perhaps in some of the same when searched at other 



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