LIST OF THE ARANEIDEA OE SPIDERS OF 

 THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. 



BY FREDK. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, B.A., F.Z.S. 



Another collection of spiders made in the island of Alderney 

 has been kindly sent to me for identification by E. D. 

 Marquand, Esq., A.L.S. It contained numerous specimens 

 which were not mature, and therefore although there were in 

 the collection some hundreds of spiders, the total number of 

 species does not exceed sixty-seven. One mentions this, not 

 for the purpose of discouraging a general indiscriminate 

 collecting of everything that comes into the spider-net, but 

 merely to account to the collector for the comparatively small 

 number of species actually placed on record. The method of 

 collecting followed by Mr. Marquand is the best possible, 

 especially in the case of the more minute forms. 



The collection, too, furnishes most valuable additions to 

 the list of the spiders already recorded for the Channel Islands 

 in general, as well as to that for the island of Alderney in 

 particular ; no less than nineteen species having been added by 

 Mr. Marquand to the Channel Island list, and forty-six to the 

 list for Alderney. 



Amongst the rarer species may be mentioned Phceocedns 

 braccatas (Drasstts braccatus) which has been taken on two 

 occasions only on our side of the Channel, along the southern 

 coast ; Drassodes minusculus^ which occurs sometimes in plenty 

 under seaweed on the coast ; Drassodes sylvestris, Agrceca 

 proxima, Pholcomma gibbum, and Crustulina guttata. The two 

 last named little spiders belong to the group of which the adult 

 males possess the stridulating organ at the base of the abdomen, 

 mentioned in my last paper in connection with Asagena phale- 

 rata and other species. 



There were also in the collection numerous examples of an 

 interesting though minute species of " Walckcncsria" Pepono- 



