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3. Thomisus sabulosus. Xysticus sabulosus, Koch, die Arach. 



Band. XII. p. 64, f. 999. 



Four specimens of this spider, which is also a new addition to the 

 British Fauna, were contained in an extensive collection of Arachnida, 

 sent to me for examination in September, 1856, by O. Pickard-Cam- 

 bridge, Esq., the whole of which had been found by him in Dorset- 

 shire during the two previous seasons, and which comprised many 

 rare and interesting species, all in excellent preservation. 



4. Philodromus pallidus, Walck. Hist. Nat. des Ins. Apt. tome i. 



p. 554. Artamus griseus, Koch, die Arach. Band XII. p. 81, 

 tab. 415, f. 1013, 1014. 



Several specimens of this new British spider were included in Mr. 

 Cambridge's collection, and were taken, he tells me, in May and 

 June, 1854, having been beaten out of Scotch firs at Morden Park, 

 near Bloxworth, Dorset. Before seeing Mr. Cambridge's specimens 

 I had received an adult female of this spider from S. C. Tress Beale, 

 Esq., of Ivy Court, Tenterden, Kent, who captured it on the 5th of 

 June last (1856), on the trunk of an ash tree, " which " (he says) " it 

 so closely resembled in colour, that had it not been devouring a 

 Phryganea I should not have detected it." I received it alive, and 

 the abdomen was distended with eggs, which it deposited, in a few 

 days, in the box in which it was confined. After this act the abdo- 

 men was much altered in size and colour, becoming darker and 

 shrivelled. 



5. Drassus lucifugus, Walck. Hist. Nat. tome i. p. 613. Drassus 



melanogaster, Latr. Gen. tome i. p. 87. Pythonissa lucifuga, 

 Koch, die Arach. Band VI. p. 54, tab. 194, f. 468—470. 



This spider had been included in the list of British species upon 

 the authority of Dr. Leach, who stated, in the Supplement to the 

 1 Encyclopaedia Britannica' (article " Annulosa "), that it had been 

 found in England, under stones ; but it had never been seen since his 

 time until I had an opportunity of inspecting Mr. P. Cambridge's 

 fine collection in September last, when I found a well-marked adult 

 female specimen. 



6. Epeira acalypha, Walck. Hist. Nat. tome ii. p. 50. Epeira 



genista?, Hahn, die Arach. Band I. p. 11, tab. 3, f. 7. Zilla 

 acalypha, Koch, die Arach. Band VI. p. 139, tab. 213, f. 530, 

 531. 

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