578 



Walckenaeea saxicola, Cambr. (p. 145). 



The typo specimens of this rare spider having boon accident- 

 ally destroyed somo years ago, I was pleased to meet with, both 

 sexes at the roots of heather on Bloxworth Hoath, on the 12th 

 of June, 1880. 



GENUS LINYPHIA, Latr. 



LlNYPIIIA ABNORMIS, Bfockw. (p. 207). 



„ linguata, Cambr. (p. 207), exclude description in foot- 

 note to p. 208. (») 



During the past and present months (September and October, 

 1879) the above spidors have occurred here under circumstances 

 which convince me, greatly to my surprise, that they con- 

 stitute the sexes of the same species. The only males of 

 Zinyphia abnormis which I had previously met with had too 

 rocently moulted for the abdominal pattern to be visible, and 

 Mr. Blackwall in his description of this spider does not mention 

 this character in either sex, nor does he clearly describe the very 

 remarkable genital process of the female. At p. 208 {supra) in 

 a footnote (*) an adult male spider received from Scotland is 

 described as (believed at the time to be) the male of Zinyphia 

 linguata ; this, however, is certainly not the caso, thd spider there 

 described being probably a recently adult example of Neriene 

 ru/a, "Westr. (p. 123). 



The examples lately found of Zinyphia abnormis and Zinyphia 

 linguata prove that the abdominal pattern (described p. 207) is 

 visible, and equally well marked, in both sexes. 



LmyrHiA impigra, Cambr. (p. 221). 



„ cikcumcincta, Cambr. (p. 191). 



On the 7th and 19th of May, 1880, I met with numerous 

 adult and immature females of Zinyphia circumcinda in the same 

 locality aB that in which the types of this species were found in 

 May, 18G0; and also, in company with them, adult and 



