tgzo. 



Pack-Beresford. — l/ish Spiders. 



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Theridion formosum Clerk. 

 T. sisyphium Walck., Bl. Spid. G. B. & I, 



Leinster, 



111 August, 191 2, I took a single female of this rather rare species in 

 the woods on the banks of the Barrow river at Borris, Co. Carlow. 



In Eagland I have taken it in Northamptonshire, and it has been found 

 in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, while Mr. Cambridge 

 records it from Dorset and Hampshire, having found it most frequent 

 in the New Forest. 



It ranges all over the Continent of Europe, and is also found in China 

 (Simon). 



Steatoda bipunctata L. 



Leinster. 



I took a single female of this species in May, 19 14, in the Zoological 

 Gardens in Dublin. 



It is curious that this species which is so widely distributed, has not 

 been met with before in Ireland. Mr. O. P. Cambridge says it is generally 

 distributed in England, and M. Simon says it extends over all Europe. 

 It is nearly always a house spider inhabiting old outbuildings. 



Pedanostethus arundinetis Camb. 



CONNAUGHT. 



This species I recorded in the Clare Island Survey pubhshed in December, 

 1911, as then new to the Irish list. I took several females in July, 1909, 

 both at Mulranny, Co. Mayo, and at Recess, Co. Galway. It has been 

 taken at five places in Great Britain ranging from Dorset to Paisley. 



On the Continent it has been found in Sweden, Holland, Bavaria, and 

 Hungary. 



Lephthyphantes nebulosus Sund. 



Linyphia vivax Bl. 



Ulster. 



Mr. J. A. Sidney Stendall reports the capture of a single male and a 

 single female of this species, in outhouses in Belfast (Co. Antrim) in his 

 paper on " Ulster Spiders collected in 1915," published in the Proceedings, 

 Belfast Nat. Hist, and Phil. Soc, 19 15-16, This is the first record of this 

 spider in Ireland. 



In England it is recorded by the Rev. O. P. Cambridge from outhouses 

 near Manchester, Glasgow, and Bath, and from Hertfordshire, while 

 Dr. A. R. Jackson took it in Glamorgan in similar situations. 



It is very rare in France having been found in one locality only, but 

 M. Simon says it is common in the north of Europe, in Prussia, Sweden 

 and Siberia. It is also found -in the United States. 



