black band enclosing the spinners and reaching to the antorior 

 extremity. 



Found near Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, and also 

 near Glasgow. 



It is possible that Neriene Douglasii may be only a young 

 example of Linyphia {Neriene, Bl.) abnormis Bl., which is, at any 

 rate, a very closely allied species, and has, as I have lately 

 ascertained, a very similar abdominal pattern ; but as there 

 appear to be some points of difference between the two spiders, 

 I hesitate to pronounce them identical, until the discovery of 

 adults of Neriene Douglasii in the locality where the type was 

 found, sets the matter at rest. 



NERIENE LAPIDICOLA. 

 Neriene lapidicola, Thor., Syn. Eur. Spid., p. 443. 

 „ rotipes, Blaclcw., I.e., p. 251. 



Length of the female 3-20ths of an inch. Male rather smaller. 



Cephalo-thorax light red-brown. Logs 4.1.2.3., furnished 

 with hairs and a few spines, and similar in colour to the cephalo- 

 thorax. Humeral joint of the male palpus enlarged at its 

 extremity; cubital and radial joints short; the former is the 

 strongest, and has a few long bristles at its fore-extremity, the 

 latter has an obtuse process on the under side of the upper part. 

 Digital joint oval, with a small protuberance at its base on the 

 inner side. Palpal organs prominent and complex with spine-like 



Abdomen brownish-black. 



Found on railings and under stones at Crumpsall, in Lanca- 

 shire. [I have never seen this spider, but it appears to be allied 

 to Neriene livida, Bl. (p. 122) and Neriene viaria, Bl. (p. 127)~|. 



NERIENE INCISA. 



Nekiene inoisa, Cambr., Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii., p. 447, pi. 

 lvii., No. 34. 

 Female, length l-7th of an inch. 



