List of Berwickshire Spiders, by James Hardy. 93 



restricted almost to this immediate neighbourhood. The speci- 

 mens were transmitted from time to time, to Mr. Blackwall, the 

 well-known British authority in this neglected branch, and none 

 have been admitted that have not passed his careful scrutiny. 

 In marking the localities, I use the terms "moor" and 

 " wood" to refer to the moor and wood adjacent to this place. 

 Where no place is mentioned the species were found near to 

 Penmanshiel. Ewelairs is a sandy sea-bank, at no great 

 distance north-west from the mouth of the Pease burn. A 

 number of species that in Wales frequent the woods, or shelter 

 themselves among the rocks on the mountains, are here as- 

 sembled on the sea-shore, dwelling in crevices amongst the 

 sand, or about the roots of the sea-reeds and other grasses. 

 This list does not comprise all the species I have seen in the 

 district. 1 have lost several collections from not being able 

 to preserve them in a good state. . The arrangement is that 

 of Mr. Blackwall's Catalogue in the Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History, second series. 



1. Lycosa ageetyca. This, one of the largest of our 

 Lycosae, is found beneath stones on the moor, and also at the 

 roots of grass at the Ewelairs, almost close on the sea-beach, 

 I found several hybernating in peat hags,^ between dry layers 

 of peat, which separate like pieces of felt, and furnish a very 

 snug retreat. It is very voracious. Happening to place one 

 along with various other large spiders in a box, it exterminated 

 the whole, and when I looked in, it was running about like a 

 dog with one of them in its mouth. I have often been amused 

 at seeing other spiders, even though their lives were in jeo- 

 pardy, when shaken from a branch, seizing hold of the readiest 

 prey, and malting off with it, as if nothing was the matter. 



2. Lycosa picta. This fine species is scarce with us. On 

 the 21st of September, 1858, I met with three or four beneath 

 stones on the sand at the Bents, near the mouth of Cockburns- 

 path burn. Some years since I obtained one on the links 

 below Oxwell-mains in East Lothian. It is not uncommon at 

 South Shields, where it lurks in a hole in the sand, whence it 

 sallies out occasionally to wander about on the smooth sur- 

 face, which it imprints conspicuously with a devious track, 

 like that of a weasel on snow. 



3. Lycosa saccata. Common. 



4. oBscuEA. Common. 



5. EXiGUA. Common. 



6. Hecaerge spinimana. By the borders of the rivulet 

 in Sisterpath dean, beneath ferns and wood-rush. May the 

 3rd, 1849. 



