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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



[July 



labour of love resulted in the formation of a valuable collection, pre- 

 pared and classified with minute care. He was ever eager to welcome 

 a brother Naturalist, and to seek and to give information on debated 

 points. He was an active member of the Bath Microscopical Society, 

 and served as one of its Vice-Presidents, and twice declined nomination 

 as President. His name was down on their Rota card for a paper to 

 be read on 7th April, on Sexual Bimorphism of British Beetles. It is 

 probable the paper was never prepared, for he was confined to his bed 

 for some months, and died two days after the day fixed for it being 

 read. Mr. Gillo took a warm interest in this magazine, was a member 

 of the Coleopterous section of the Exchange Club, and by his contri- 

 butions to our pages and recommendations to his many friends, greatly 

 assisted in placing it in the front rank on this subject. He was a pleas- 

 ant and agreeable man in company, and we have lost a kind friend. 



Arachnida. 



Spider Notes. 



The months that have just passed, and September and October, 

 are perhaps more prolific in spiders than any others in the year. 

 Collectors must now look sharp with leaf-shaking in w^oods, and moss 

 and dry grass-shaking, because soon the green summer herbage will 

 be springing and choking up their hunting grounds. He will then 

 take to the sweeping net and umbrella 



There is plenty of work for the latter now. amongst the Gorze 

 blossom, the small, rich, red little Lingphia dovsalis is now adult and 

 abundant. The small, dark, black Dictyna latens can also be beaten 

 from the Gorse, besides the swiftly-running, crab-like Philodvoinus 

 aiireohis, which often in its escape seizes a fellow captive to keep it 

 company. Many others, young and old, will fall into the umbrella, 

 and few of them will the beginner be able to identify In marshy 

 places quantities of nice little things may now be found amongst the 

 sedge roots, GougyUdiuiu hitubevculatuiu being perhaps one of the 

 commonest ; remarkable for the pair of rounded humps above the eyes, 

 well calculated to render him (for the male only is thus developed) 

 liable to a couple of headaches at once. Of the same genus, tuherosiim 



