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that ihey bad others which escaped Mr. Masterman's obser- 

 vation. From his description, I believe his spiders to have 

 been of the genus Nepbila, in which there are four con- 

 spicuous eyes forming nearly a square in the niiddle of the 

 fore part of the caput : these would be sure to attract 

 observation, but a pair of smaller ones close together, on 

 each side of the caput at a considerable distance from the 

 central four, would be very likely to escape observation, and 

 the spider would be thus supposed to have but the four seen 

 in the centre. 



O. P.-Cambridge. 

 Bloxworth Rectory, 



March 22,1870. 



Irish Insect-hunting Grounds. By Edwin Birchall, Esq. 



Connemara. 



" This universe shall pass away — a work 

 Glorious! because the shadow of thy might, 

 A step, a link, for intercourse with Thee. 

 Ah! if the time must come, in which my feet 

 No more shall stray where meditation leads, 

 By flowing stream, through wood, or craggy wild, 

 Loved haunts like these, the uniinprisoned mind 

 May yet have scope to range amona; her own, 

 Her thoughts, her images, her high desires." 



The Excursion. 



Connemara lies between Lough Corrib and the Atlantic, 

 forming the western extremity of the County Gal way, and 

 I venture to draw attention to its entomological productions, 

 principally for the Irish reason that very little is known about 

 them. A few words on the physical geography of the district 

 may interest your readers, not many of whom have perhaps 

 visited this wild and almost uninhabited region ; indeed, so 

 wild and irreclaimable does it appear, that when one comes 

 upon a human being amidst its solitudes, it is startling to see 

 him clothed, not in savage attire, or as certain Irishmen are 

 described by Strada in 1586, — "clad only below the waist, 

 and mounted on stilts," — but in the swallow-tailed coat and 

 chimney-pot hat, which, in spite of their English origin, 



