5626 Arachnida. 



Several females of this pretty spider, which is also new as British, 

 were captured by myself, in June last, near Newton-Purcell, Oxon ; 

 several more were also contained in Mr. Cambridge's Dorsetshire col- 

 lection, which he tells me were beaten from Scotch firs at Morden 

 Park, near Bloxworth, in May and June, 1854. All the specimens 

 that I have seen have been females ; and Koch remarks that though 

 this is not a very rare spider in Germany, the male is very seldom 

 found. 



7. Epeira angulata, Walck. Hist. Nat. tome ii. p. 121 ; Hahn, die 



Arach. Band II. p. 19, tab. 44, f. 108. Epeira Schreibersii, 

 ibid. p. 20, f. 109. Epeira regia, Koch, die Arach. Band XL 

 p. 88, tab. 380, f. 899. 



We are indebted for this fine, unrecorded British species to Mr. P. 

 Cambridge, several specimens having been captured by him in Dor- 

 setshire, and forwarded to me, with the rest of his collection, in Sep- 

 tember last. 



8. Epeira tubulosa, Walck. Hist. Nat. tome ii. p. 86. Singa 



hamata et Singa melanocephala, Koch, die Arach. Band III. 

 p. 42 et 44, tab. 88, f. 197—199, titulus 7; Lister, Hist. 

 Animal. Angl. de Aran. p. 40, tab. i. f. 7. 



Since the year 1678, when Dr. Lister published his c History of 

 English Animals ' (including a treatise on spiders), in which he says 

 that this species is common in wet meadows and among rushes, its 

 capture has never been recorded ; I was therefore much pleased to 

 see a fine adult female specimen in the collection made by Mr. P. 

 Cambridge in Dorsetshire. 



Phalangidea : Harvest-men, fyc. 



1. Phalangium minutum, Meade, Monogr. on British Phalangiidce, 

 An. fy Mag. of Nat. Hist. ser. 2, vol. xv. p. 405. 



When I published a description of this minute harvest-man I had 

 seen but two specimens, which had been mixed with other species, 

 and the locality in which they were obtained forgotten. I was, how- 

 ever, so fortunate as to meet with another in a collection of spiders 

 made in the neighbourhood of Dublin, and obligingly sent for my 

 inspection in December, 1855, by E. Percival Wright, Esq., of Tri- 

 nity College, Dublin. I think it very probable that the other two 

 specimens also came from Ireland, as I have received numerous 



