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 SPIDERS ARACHNIDA spiders and Harvestmen The materials placed in my hands for the preparation of the subjoined h'st have been in one respect very fairly satisfactory, that is in regard to the kind efforts of the only two gentlemen w^ho have found themselves able to contribute materials. These materials, collected in, I presume for the most part, tw^o localities only, give evidence of a rich field for at least one order of Arachnids {Arane- idea true spiders) the result being ninety-five species. These are mostly, as a matter of course, among the common and generally distributed known British spiders. Some, however, among the more minute forms, show that a little more expert and close collecting would very soon double or treble the number of species met with. The county of Hereford itself also, by its nature and position, would lead one to expect it to be a rich locality for Araneidea. The districts in which the collec- tions, or a greater part of them, were made, were those of Ewyas Harold and the banks of the Monnow, practically, I believe, one district, and Woolhope. The collectors are Mr. H. E. Jones of Ewyas Harold, and Mr. John H. Wood of Tarrington, near Hereford. Six species only have been communicated to me by anyone else (Dr. A. Randell Jackson), from near Hereford. It is evident that only ninety-five species of spiders, out of nearly or about 550 known British forms, and four of Phalangidea or Harvestmen out of twenty-four British species, are not an adequate representation of the Arachnids of a county like Hereford. The spiders (Araneidea) however give a fair idea of the commoner and more obvious and widely distributed species, with a few of the rarer and more local forms, such as Protadia subnigra, Cambridge, Theridion impressum, C. L. Koch, Entekcara acuminata. Wider, Peponocranium ludicrum, Cambridge, and Tetragnatha ohtusa, C. L. Koch. My best thanks are due to the gentlemen I have named for their hearty and kind efforts to supply the hitherto absolute dearth of information as to the Arachnidous fauna of the county. For all information respecting systematic arrangement, nomenclature, synonyms, descriptions, and other particulars of the Arachnids below, reference may be made to the following English publications. A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, by John Blackwall (Ray Society, 1861-64). Spiders of Dorset (with an appendix containing short descriptions of those British species not yet found in Dorset) by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., published by the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1879-81. Papers on ' Spiders and other British Arachnids,' by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., etc. (being papers supplementary to ' Spiders of Dorset,' published in the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1 882-1 907). List of British and Irish Spiders, by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., etc, pp. 1-84, published by Sime & Co., Dorchester, Dorset, 1900. 'Monograph on the British species of Phalangidea or Harvestmen,' by R. H. Meade, F.R.C.S., in Annals and Magazine of Natural History, June, 1855. 'Monograph on the British Species of Phalangidea or Harvestmen,' by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., C.M.Z.S., etc., in Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, xi (1890), ' Monograph on the British Species of Chernetidea or False Scorpions,' by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., C.M.Z.S., etc., in Proceed- ings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, xiii (1892). ARANEIDEA True Spiders DYSDERIDAE DRASSIDAE Harpactes, Templeton Drassus, Walckenaer Harpactes hombergii, Scopoli. Ewyas Harold, near Drassus cupreus, Blackvifall. Ewyas Harold (H. E. J ) Hereford (H. E. Jones) Clueiona, Latreille Segestria, Latreille Clubiona terrestris, Westring. Ewyas Harold Segestria senoculata, Linnaeus. Ewyas Harold (H. E. J.) ; banks of the Monnow (Tohn (H. E. J.) H. Wood) 109 /