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SPIDEES OBTAINED IN NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, 



1886. 



H. WALLIS KEW, F.E.S. 

 Hon. Sec. to Louth Xatiiralists Society, Lo7'.th. 



So little attention has been paid to these animals that it may be well 

 to record the following sixty-eight species, as a contribution towards a 

 list of the Spiders of North Lincolnshire, to which I hope to be able 

 to make many additions at the end of another season. 



Most of the species included in the present list have been found 

 in Louth and the adjoining villages. Louth is situated on the eastern 

 border of the Wolds, where in many places the chalk is much covered 

 with boulder clay. Skirting the Wolds near Louth there are numerous 

 small woods, known respectively as Muckton, Burwell, Haugham, 

 Maltby, Jenney, and Legbourne Woods, which are evidently remnants 

 of the great ancient forest which formerly covered the country below 

 the Wolds. 



A little collecting has also been done at Mablethorpe, Saltfleet, 

 and Saltfleetby, which are marsh-villages drained by slow-flowing 

 ditches and bounded on the east by the broad sandhills of the coast. 



The Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, whose courteous help I grate- 

 fully acknowledge, has examined my captures. One specimen at 

 least of all the following has been through the hands of Mr. Cam- 

 bridge, with the exception of Epeira scalaris and Zilla atrica. Epeii-a 

 scalaris cannot be mistaken for any other British Spider, nor can 

 Zilla atrica if the palpi of the male are noticed. 



DYSDERIDES. 



Dysdera cambridgii Thor. One specimen of this formidable Spider 

 was brought to me in May from a chalk-pit in Louth. 



Harpactes hombergii Scop. Plentiful under the flaking outer bark 

 of sycamores near Louth. i\lso taken on the Mablethorpe 

 sandhills. 



Segestria senoculata L. Several specimens taken in May from 

 beneath the bark of some dead wood in a hedge on Hubbard's 

 Hills, near Louth. 



DRASSIDES. 



Brassus blackwallii Thor. About houses in Louth. More than 

 once noticed crawling on the walls of bedrooms at night. 



Drassus lapidicolens Walck. Not rare near Louth. Also taken at 

 Mablethorpe. 



Feb. 1887. 



