5624 Arachnida. 



List of new and rare British Aracltnidans. 

 By R. H. Meade, F.R.C.S. 



Several interesting native spiders having fallen under my notice 

 during the last eighteen months, some of which have not previously 

 been recorded as inhabitants of Britain, I subjoin a list of them, 

 with references to the principal works in which they have been 

 figured or described, together with a brief notice of the localities 

 were they were found. 



Araneidea, or true spiders, 



1. Atypus Sulzeri, Latreille, Genera, tome i. p. 85, tab. 5, f. 2; 



Halm und Koch, die Arachnidea, Band I. p. 117, tab. 31, 

 f. 88; Band XVI. p. 72, tab. 562, f. 1547. Oletera atypa, 

 Walckenaer, Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt. tome i. p. 243, pi. 

 1, f. 5. 



I received an adult male of this interesting spider from O. Pickard- 

 Cambridge, Esq., of Bloxworth House, near Blandford, Dorset, in the 

 beginning of January last. He said it was taken a few days before, 

 from a rabbit-earth while ferretting in his neighbourhood. 



Dr. Leach captured specimens of this spider in Great Britain ; but 

 since his time it had not been seen again until the summer of 1855, 

 when Mr. Brown, of Cirencester, found several females, with their 

 tubular nests, in the neighbourhood of Hastings. Mr. Newman read 

 an interesting account of this discovery at the Linnean Society, on 

 the 5th of February, 1856 (Zool. 5021). Mr. Brown did not find a 

 male, and wondered where they secreted themselves; the capture, 

 therefore, of that sex by Mr. Pickard-Cambridge in a rabbit-earth is 

 very interesting. 



2. Lycosa piscatoria, Koch, die Arach. Band XV. p. 6, tab. 506, f. 



1417—1419. 



I found several adult males and females of this species, which has 

 not previously been noticed as an inhabitant of Britain, in some 

 marshy ground at Newton Purcell, near Bicester, Oxon, on June 24, 

 1856. This spider bears a very close general resemblance to Lycosa 

 piratica, and appears to have much the same habits ; it differs from 

 that species, however, in being darker in colour, in having the legs 

 and palpi more distinctly annulated with brown, and the abdomen 

 differently marked and spotted. 



