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I met with one of our finest and most striking looking Lycosids 

 {Tarentula cumata, 01k.), and L do not doubt that it would 

 occur, locally perhaps, in similar situations throughout the 

 county, as it has done also on some parts of the Purbeck Hills, as 

 well as near Sherborne, in Dorset. L will not particularise furtlier 

 here in respect to any other species, as their being local or rare, 

 &c., is noted in such cases, in the list. It will be remarked at 

 once, no doubt, that there are no records here in respect to any 

 other Orders of the Aracfinida excepting those of the trvji Spidc/rs 

 {Araneidea) do\\({ the ^'Harvest Men" (Phalanr/idea), and of this latter 

 there is only a list of five species. I myself unfortunately kept no 

 list of the P/udanr/iderc that came under my own observation ; but 

 out of the recorded British species (about twenty-five) I feel no 

 doubt that the greater number would be easily turned up in 

 Wiltshire. 



The Order Chernetidea (False-scorpions), though unrepresented 

 in the present list by even a single recorded species, would most 

 certainly contribute a few of its most widely-distributed forms. 

 At present the known P>ritish species are only about twenty-two, 

 but every working Ooleopteiist must be familiar with one or two 

 of its singular forms, whicli appear to be distributed very widely^ 

 and not to be rare in Great Britain. 



Respecting the other great (Jrder of Arachnids {Acaridea) I have 

 nothing to say here. There is no one yet in England, so far as I 

 know, who seriously takes it up as a whole. Several of its groups 

 have been successfully worked at, as the Orihatidce and Irodidif', 

 but the "specialist" of Llui whole Order has still to arise. Should 

 the publication of the piesent paper induce any of its readers to 

 take up the British Anickuldd, seriously, in any of its (^nlers, 1 

 would refer them, as to the Ara)ie/ideti, or true spiders, to the late 

 Mr. lUacl^waU's great folio work, ])ul)lisluHl in IStJl by (ho Kay 

 Society, and the; su1)S(M|U(miL works, " Sftidrrs o/' /><»/•>■</" (l)iinu:ing 

 r.lackwall up lo ISSl), by tlio Kov. O. lMckanl-( 'auibridu^'. pub- 

 lishtMJ in Ihc IMococdin-s n{ ihr Dorset Natural History and 

 Anti'iUMiian l^'icldl Muh, I SSI , ;nul u] i t ndatc in I he annual supph'- 

 iucnlarN' |);iiMns ])y llio same autJior. puhlislu'd in t hose 1 *i occc.lin 



