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ARACHNIDA OF WILTSHIEE. 



ARANEIDEA AND PHALANGIDEA. 

 By the Rev, O. Pick ard- Cambridge, MA., F.R.S., &c. 



The materials for the subjoined list have been accumulating for 

 many past years. Besides some Arachnids I have myself collected, 

 many were collected for me by my cousin, the late Col. Pickard, 

 R.A., V.C., &c. (while tutor to his late Royal Highness Prince 

 Leopold, at Boyton Manor and East Grafton). More recently 

 I received considerable collections from the neighbourhood of 

 Salisbury from Dr. H. P. Blackmore, M.D. ; and some also from the 

 vicinity of Marlborough College, kindly collected for me througli 

 the good offices of Mr. Edward Meyrick, F.R.S., Science Master at 

 the college, chiefly, I believe, by the junior members of his own 

 family. No doubt the list, (numbering one hundred and seventy- 

 five species) though very respectable and important, is by no means 

 an adequate one, considering the nature of the different localities 

 mentioned. I should without hesitation expect that anything like 

 the systematic search of a " specialist " would more than double it 

 by the end of any single year's collecting. The vast range of 

 uncultivated and down lands, and Savernake Forest, would alone, 

 I think, make this certain. 



I have appended the initials of the collectors I have named to 

 the species collected by them, and my own only to a few species of 

 rarity ; but I have myself noted during many collecting rambles 

 in Wiltshire, most of the common and widely-distributed species 

 in the list, though I did not at the time keep any separate note 

 upon them. Many of them I met with in a most promising 

 locality, Alderbury, near Salisbury, and in the near neighbourhood 

 of Salisbury itself. Old Sai-um, &c., &c., but chiefly in the vicinity 

 of Norton Bayant, near Warminster, where on the highest Downs 



