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Arachnid a. 



T. cristatus. This very variable species is common everywhere. 



T. sabulosus. This species, (though previously known on the 

 Continent), was discovered by myself on Blox worth Heath in 1854, 

 and I have since taken it plentifully on Lyndhurst Heath ; adults are 

 scarce, especially males. This species is fond of sitting on the bare 

 spots where turf has been cut, and where the small bits of gray mottled 

 stone are strikingly like itself. 



T. atomarius. A single specimen under dry cow-dung at Lynd- 

 hurst, August, 1858. 



T. luctuosus. Bloxworth, August, 1857. 



T. bifasciatus. I have taken this handsome species sparingly on 

 Bloxworth Heath in the early spring. 



T. Cambridgii. This species (a single adult female) was taken by 

 myself on Bloxworth Heath, in September, 1857, and has been lately 

 described in the ' Annals of Natural History' by Mr. Blackwall ; who 

 at the same time paid me the compliment of naming it after me. It 

 is a large and handsome species, and showed very strikingly the habit 

 (common, more or less, to all of this genus) of setting itself back and 

 " showing fight" when the fingers were put near it. 



T. citreus. Taken sparingly, at Bloxworth, from the blossoms of 

 the common mullein and golden rod, in which it lies in wait to catch 

 the insects that creep among them to suck the honey. I have known 

 the female of this species overpower and kill a bee. 



T. abbreviatus. Of this beautiful and delicately-coloured spider, 

 a very young specimen was discovered by myself in one of my ento- 

 mological collecting boxes at Bloxworth, in Septemher, 1857; but 

 during the last summer (1858) I have taken it freely on Lyndhurst 

 Heath ; previous to 1857, it was only known as an inhabitant of the 

 South of France, Italy, Spain, and Africa. This species is of a 

 singular shape, and sits with its two foremost legs slightly directed 

 forwards, and both close together like one leg, and likewise the two 

 hind legs similarly drawn backwards. 



Philodromus dispar. Bloxworth ; but rare. 



P. pallidus. This species was discovered by myself in 1854, at 

 Morden Park, near Bloxworth — or rather rediscovered, for in an old 

 MS. of about the year 1714, lately lent me by James Salter, M.D., 

 of Montague Street, London, and written by an ancestor of his, there 

 is a very truthful coloured figure and description of this species. I 

 have since taken it on Lyndhurst and Ringwood Heaths plentifully. 

 The MS. referred to contains 145 figures and descriptions of about 



