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List of Spiders (Araneidea) and Rarvest-men (Fhcdan- 

 gidea) collected around Eyemouth, Beriuickshire, in 

 September 1895. By William Evans, F.R.S.E. 



While staying at Eyemouth last month, I employed an 

 hour or two now and again io collecting Spiders and their 

 allies, the " Harvest-men," and it has occurred to me that 

 a list of my captures might perhaps be of interest to some 

 of the members of our Club. 



It is now well nigh half a century since our worthy 

 Secretary, Dr Hardy, first gave attention to the Spiders of 

 Berwickshire, and his list published in the Club's Proceedings 

 for 1858 (Vol. IV., p. 92) was the first of the kind for 

 Scotland. About 1871 he again turned his attention to the 

 order, and the results of his labours are set forth in a paper 

 by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge, in the Club's Proceedings for 

 1875 (Vol. VII., p. 307.) A feature of Dr Hardy's collections 

 was the number of new species they yielded. To one of 

 the most interesting, Blackwall gave the name Walckenaera 

 (now Tmeticus) hardii, which, as yet, has been found in but 

 one other British locality, namely at GuUane Point, in East 

 Lothian, where I had the good fortune to find it in September 

 1893. It has, however, been found in France. 



Any material addition to the lists of Berwickshire Spiders, 

 above alluded to, would, of course, require much more extended 

 and laborious research than, even supposing I had done nothing 

 else, was possible in the limited time at my disposal. The 

 great majority of the species I met with are common Scottish 

 forms, but twenty-two or thereby (16 Spiders and 6 Phalangids) 

 appear to be additions to the recorded county list, the most 

 interesting being Dysdera crocata, 0. Koch, which has not 

 previously been reported from Scotland. 



The Eev. 0. P. Cambridge has kindly overhauled my 

 collection, verifying and correcting my identifications, and 

 naming specimens about which I was in doubt. 



The arrangement and nomenclature here employed are the 

 same as in several joint papers on Scottish Arachnids, recently 

 drawn up by Mr G. H. Carpenter and myself, and published 

 in the Proceedings of the Eoyal Physical Society, and in 

 the Annals of Scottish Natural History. 



