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FIELD NOTES. 



ARACHNIDA. 



Yorkshire Spiders. — Notes of Captures on the East 

 Coast. — In the paucity of Yorkshire records the following- 

 spiders, selected from among-st a number of commoner species, 

 and collected on the East Coast in August 1904, are worthy of 

 notice : — 



Harpactes homhergii Scop. Whitby, 



Ilahnia montana Bl. One female, Scarboroug-h Mere. Thoug-h of 

 wide distribution in the British Isles, this spider has not been taken 

 outside these limits. 



Leptyphantes ohscuriis Bl. One male and two females, Ha\ burn Wyke. 

 A local spider thoug-h widely distributed. 



Tmeiicus scopiger Grube. One male from heather, Ravenscar. 



Tmeticiis pmdens Cb. One fem.ale, Ravenscar. A rare s-oider. 



Microyieta conigera Cb. Hayburn Wyke. One female of a ' variety 

 sent to me also from Xotting-hamshire 1 Rev. O. Pickard. Cami- 

 bridge.j' A rare spider. 



Microneta siihlimis Cb. One male and one female from heather, 

 Ravenscar. A rare spider recorded from the Cheviots and Mount 

 Helvellyn, which reaches its present southernmost limit near 

 Huddersfield, where I have taken several specimens of both sexes 

 at various times between the years 190T-4. 



Maso siindevcillii Westr. Two females, Hayburn Wyke. This species 

 and some others are usually accounted rare, but I believe they are 

 only apparently so owing to their habit of close concealment, ar.d 

 the absence of competent observers. 



Gongylidiiim retiisum Westr. One male, Scarboroug-h. 



Peponocraniuni liidicrum Cb. One female. Ravenscar. 



Cornicidaria cuspidata Bl. One female, Scarboroug-h. 



Ceratinella hrevis Wid. One female, Scarborough. 



Ero thoracica Wid. One female, Ravenscar, 



Trochosa picta Hahn. A few immature examples, North Bay, Scar- 

 borough. 



Eiiophrys frontalis Walck. Scarborough ^Vlere and Scalby Mills. 



— \Vm. Falconer, Bank Field, Slaithwaite, 9th November 1904. 



Tmeticus reprobus Cb. at Liandudno. — In August 190 , 

 I was fortunate enough to capture on the sea coast 'its usual 

 habitat), near the Little Orme, one male Tmeticus reprohus Cb., 

 which, as the only example taken up to the present time on the 

 west coast of England, I am anxious to record. It is one of 

 our rarest spiders, and has not occurred anywhere but in the 

 British Isles, and then only in a few widely-separated localities 

 — Weymouth, Edinburgh, Dublin Ba}\ \Vhitb}\ Northumber- 

 land, and Llandudno. — \V. Falconer, Bank Field, Slaithwaite, 

 9th November 1904. 



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