214 Kew : Snares or Snap-nets of Triangle Spiders. 



hurst (New Forest) ; but, taking the specimens by beating - , he 

 did not observe the snare. The Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 

 who visited the spot in June 1895, again collected the animal, 

 finding - numbers (immature) on dead lichen-covered branches of 

 bushes of blackthorn and whitethorn ; one was seen in its 

 snare, and Mr. Frederick O. Pickard-Cambridge, by whom the 

 elder arachnologist was accompanied, had the satisfaction of 

 witnessing - ' the sudden release by the spider of its trap-line, 

 while at the same time it gave a sudden leap forward in the 

 direction of the snare.'* Later, in July, adult specimens were 

 obtained, but not without trouble, for the spider ' makes its 

 snares among- the dead lichen-covered twigs of almost impene- 

 trable bushes of blackthorn and whitethorn, and is most difficult 



Fig. 7. — Sketch, from nature, of the snare of Hyptiotes anceps. 

 After Castelnau, La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, XXVII. (1897), 

 p. 108. Reduced. 



to obtain without getting right into the middle, underneath the 

 thickest part of the bushes, 'f 



I may perhaps be permitted, finally, to call attention to a 

 paper (previously overlooked by me) in which Mr. J. Castelnau, 

 of Montpellier, writes of the habits of another European" species, 

 the Hyptiotes anceps. % The snare of this species, of which 

 a rough sketch from nature is given, is of the characteristic 



* O. Pickard-Cambridg-e, ibid., p. 126. 



fO. Pickard-Cambridge, ibid., XVII. (1896), pp. 55-6, 61. 

 % J. Cajstelnau, Notes sur Hyptiotes anceps, La Feuille des Jeunes 

 Naturalistes, XXVII. (1897), pp. 107-11. 



Naturalist. 



