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According to Blackwall, it is met with in southern and western 

 England: Leach *) even says that "it is very common in the west of 

 England". The only instances of its appearance in Scandinavia are 

 the specimens taken by Westring in Goteborg, but which have 

 doubtless been brought thither from warmer countries ; the same must 

 be the case with that, which Siemaschko 2 ) captured ad St Peters- 

 burg — provided it belongs to this species. Van Hasselt even con- 

 siders, and on good grounds, that some of the specimens he has ob- 

 tained in the great maritime towns of Holland, were importations 

 from abroad. — The species is found in Egypt and Algeria, in the 

 Island of St Helena 3 ), and even in the East Indies (as in Java and 

 Amboyna, where Doleschall ') says it is common), and, according 

 to Blackwall 3 ), in Canada. Von Frauenfeld 6 ) found the "Ph. nema- 

 stomoides C. Koch" on board the Novara Frigate during her voyage 

 from Rio Janeiro to Canton. — Several other "habitats" are indeed 

 mentioned by different authors for "Ph. phalangioides" or "opifionoi- 

 des"; but it is uot possible to know which species they speak of 7 ). 



1) The Edinburg Cyclopedia, conducted by Brewster, VII, p. 424 (Art. 

 Crustaceology). 



2) Verzeichn. der in der Umgeg. von St. Petersburg gefund. Spinnen, t» 

 Horse Soc. Entora. Boss., Fasc. I, p. 129. 



3) Cambridge, Notes on some Spiders and Scorpions from St. Helena etc., 

 in Proceed, of the Zool. Soc. of London, 1869, p. 533. 



4) Tweede Bijdrage tot de Kenn. d. Arachn. van d. Indischen Archipel, in 

 Acta Soc. Scient. Indo-Neerland. , V, p. 47. 



5) Notice of Spid. captured by Potter in Canada, in Ann. of Nat. Hist., 

 XVII, p. 77. 



6) Zool. Miscellen , XI , 1 : Das Insektenleben zur See , in Verhandl. d. 

 Zool.-bot. Gesellsch. in Wien, XVII (1867), p. 461 (37). 



7) Mr L. VON Kempelen has given me specimens of a Pholcus from Hun- 

 gary (the Banat), which , as it seems to be new to science, may be here noticed : 

 I call it Ph. Forskalii, in memory of the celebrated Swedish traveller and Na- 

 turalist P. Forskal, who died at Jerin in Arabia, 1763, at the age of 27 years. 



Pholcus Forskalii N. cephalothorace sub-orbiculato, impressionibus cepha- 

 licis et fovea media profundis, cum mandibulis, palpis pedibusque rufescenti-testa- 

 ceo; patellis ut et annulo versus apicem femorum tibiarumque nigricantibus ; stenio 

 et maxillis laetius vel fuscius testaceis ; abdomine brevi , sub-globoso , paullo tantum 

 longiore quam latiore. 



Femince sternum postice laeve, tuberculo carens; palpi versus apicem non 

 incrassati, parte patellari paullo longiore et angustiore quam tibiali, hac apicem 

 versus sensim acuminata; vulva ex area magna convexa fusca, triangula vel fere 

 semi-circulari constans, apertura postica magna transversa hianti; maris mandibu- 

 lse in latere exteriore (supra), versus apicem , dente maximo , forti armatse ; femora 



