3G2 AEANEIDEA OF GUERNSEY. 



The fourth list, compiled from the names on the bottles 

 in which Mrs. Collings had preserved her specimens, was 

 kindly sent to me by Mr. W. A. Luff, of Guernsey, and con- 

 tains the names of nine species not mentioned in the Guide 

 Book of 1863. Unfortunately the spirit has long since 

 evaporated from the phials, so that the specimens themselves 

 have either perished completely or become unrecognisable. 



The fifth list contains the names of twenty-five species 

 collected by Messrs. B. B. and M. F. Woodward in the 

 Channel Islands in 1890, which, through the kindness of Mr. 

 R. I. Pocock, of the South Kensington Museum, were handed 

 over to me for identification. 



The sixth list, containing the names of twenty-four 

 spiders, the result of a few days' collecting in Guernsey in 

 September, 1894, was given to me by Mr. Warburton, and 

 records no less than nine species not hitherto observed in the 

 Channel Islands, besides an adult female Micaria whose iden- 

 tity has not yet been satisfactorily determined. 



A final list drawn up from a parcel of specimens kindly 

 sent me by Mr. Luff on the eve of closing the list, enables us 

 to add four species not hitherto recorded, out of a total of 

 twenty-five submitted for examination. 



We are thus able to bring the sum total of the spiders of 

 the Channel Islands to the creditable number of one hundred 

 and twenty-one, but of these, five species, marked in the list 

 with an asterisk are of very doubtful value. 



The comparative number for each of the islands is as 

 follows : — 



Guernsey : Thirty-nine species. 



Jersey Eighteen species. 



Alderney , Two species. 



Sark Eighty-three species. 



Herm Five species. 



Lihou One species. 



The most interesting of the species recorded in the above 

 list are Eresus cinnabarinus, Atypus piceus, Scytodes thoracica, 

 Teutana grossa, Asagena phalerata, Lycosa cinerea, and Salticus 

 formicarius. The first has been taken, but only very rarely, 

 in the sandy heath districts of southern Hampshire and Dorset. 

 The second is a spider, though not by any means rare, not 

 often observed on account of its habit of constructing a 

 tubular retreat in the earth, where it resides. Here, too, it 

 lies in wait for insects, which are seized as they pass over the 

 exposed end of the tube and drawn in through a vent made 

 with the falces, in the act of seizing, in the silken tissues of 



