Insects. 



8509 



Family EpEiRiDiE. 



Epeira patagiata, Koch. A male adult, and both sexes immature, 

 of this species, on trees and furze-bushes, at Bloxworth, in a low damp 

 situation, in June, 1862. 



Tribe Senoculina. 

 Family Scytodid^e. 



Savignia frontata, Blackw. Males of this remarkable species were 

 not rare on iron railings, at Bloxworth, in March and April, 186*2, and 

 in March, 1863. Mr. Black wall, unable to discover a fourth pair of 

 eyes in this species, has included it (in its present position) among 

 the six-eyed spiders (Senoculina). I have constantly fancied myself 

 able to discover a fourth pair, though sometimes with great difficulty, 

 at the apex of the frontal eminence ; and I am borne out in my idea 

 by the microscopical investigations, directed specially to this point, 

 of Mr. Richard Beck (Lister Works, London) ; though, as the matter 

 at present stands, Mr. Blackwall is yet doubtful on the point. West- 

 ring describes this species under the name Erigone conica (' Araneae 

 Suecicae,' p. 220) ; and he there says, " Oculos duos intermedios 

 anticos, segre observandos," which exactly agrees with my own obser- 

 vations. In the event of its being decided to have eight eyes, it will 

 have to be removed to the genus Walckenaera, with which it agrees 

 in all generic characters, as well as by its general form and size. 



C O. Picrard-Cambridge. 



* Bloxworth, Blandford, Dorset, 

 April 1, 1863. 



On the Name " Lithosia molybdeola" — The Rev. Joseph Greene having men- 

 tioned my name (Zool. 8468) in connexion with the Lilhosia molybdeola of Guenee, 

 I feel compelled, though very reluctantly, to say a few words on the subject. I admit 

 that Mr. Gregson's name " sericea" was published in the ' Intelligencer' before my 

 friend M. Guenee's 1 Monographic Notice of the European Species of the Genus 

 Lithosia' appeared in the 'Transactions of the Entomological Society of France;' 

 but the practice of describing new species in ephemeral periodicals like the * Intel- 

 ligencer' is very objectionable. * In October, 1859, I sent specimens of all our 

 Lithosise (except L. quadra and L. rubricollis) to M. Guenee, and among them two 



* M. Guenee's paper upon the European Lithosiae was read at the Meeting of the 

 Entomological Society of France, on the 12th of December, 1860, and published 

 immediately afterwards in the ' Annales.' 



