SPIDEKS OF GUEKXSin'. 



Troehosa einerea, Fabr. Saik. 



Lyeosa prativaga, C. L Koch. Aldemej. 

 L. palustris, Linn. Jersey. Sark. 



Mappessa museosa, Chrci-. Sark. 



AttUS pubeseens, Fair. Alderney. 



Phalangium papietinum, Bed. Alderney. 



SelePOSOma Romanum, Cambr. Aldemey. 



The Continental species which have not hitherto been 

 found on the English side of the Channel form, as I have said, 

 an interesting feature of the Guernsey spider-fauna, and thej 

 merit special notice. They are these : 



Prosthesima fortuita. 

 Clubiona stigmatica. 

 Tegenaria pusilla. 

 Laseola erythropus. 

 Epeira dromedaria. 

 Oxyptila nigrita. 

 Tarentula albofasciata. 

 Heliophanus ceneus. 

 H. Cambridgii. 

 Euophrys sulfurea. 

 Pellenes Bedelii. 



After carefully going through the list given below, 

 Mr. Pickard-Cambridge has favoured me with some notes 

 which are worth preserving. He says : 



" I do not quite agree with your idea that the number of 

 species not yet recorded for Britain is remarkable, for they 

 only amount to eleven. From the situation of Guernsey, and 

 looking at its probable connection in past geologic ages, with 

 the French coast, I should have expected more than these ; 

 and feel pretty sure that others will be added some day. 

 Then as to the absence of some of the common British spiders. 

 I rather think you have not in Guernsey the amount of coppice 

 and woodland that we have in England, especially in the 

 south, and so you would merely pick up noAv and then as 

 rarities, many of the species which we get commonly in such 

 situations, and as regards some of them, very likely you 

 might work for several years without seeing a specimen. I 

 confess that I could name very few of our common British 

 spiders which 1 could say I am surprised you have not yet met 

 with. Your total is a remarkably good one for the limited 

 area and kind of locality, collected in a season or two by 

 a non-specialist, and it is quite equal to the result of a similar 



