SPIDERS 
struct a tubular retreat with an outer sheet of webbing which is covered with flocculent silk 
made with the calamistrum with threads from the cribellum. 
213. Amaurobius ferox (Walckenaer). 216. Dictyna arundinacea (Linnzus). 
Eden Valley, Carlisle. Lake districts. 
Known also under Ciniflo. Known also as Ergatis benigna. 
214. Amaurobius similis (Blackwall). 217. Dictyna uncinata, Thorell. 
Eden Valley ; Solway and Lake districts, Eden Valley and Lake districts. 
K ] der Ciniflo. 
Reve serine 218. Dictyna latens (Fabricius). 
215. Amaurobdius fenestralis (Stroem.). Eskdale (A. R. J.). 
Eden Valley and Lake districts. Fairly common on gorse bushes in August 
Known also as Ciniflo atrox. and September. 
CHERNETES 
CHELIFERIDA 
Out of twenty species of false scorpions hitherto recorded as indigenous to Great Britain 
only two have been taken in this county. The various species can usually be found amongst 
moss and dead leaves or beneath stones and the bark of trees. They are unmistakable on 
account of their possession of a pair of forcipated palpi like those of the true scorpion. These 
are usually extended wide open when the Arachnid is alarmed while it hastens backward to 
take shelter. The two species which have occurred in this county are the following :— 
219. Obisium muscorum (Leach). 220. Chernes nodosus (Schrank). 
Carlisle ; Armathwaite ; Wreay. Carlisle. 
Common in the woods amongst dead This species is usually found attached to a 
leaves, fly by the forcipated palpi. 
OPILIONES 
The harvestmen are spider-like creatures with eight long legs, the tarsi very long and 
flexible. Eyes simple, two in number, situated og each side of an eye eminence. Body not 
divided into two distinct regions by a narrow pedicle as in spiders ; abdomen segmentate. 
221. Phalangium opilio, Linn. 224. Oligelophus morio, Fabricius. 
Solway district. Lake districts. 
222. Phalangium parietinum, De Geer. 225. Oligolophus agrestis, Meade. 
Carlisle. Eden Valley. 
223. Megabunus insignis, Meade. 226. Nemastoma lugubre, O. F. Miller. 
Eden Valley. Solway district. 
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