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 SPIDERS DRASSID^ Spiders with eight eyes, situated in two transverse rows. The tracheal openings lie just in front of the spinners. The tarsal claws are two in number, the anterior pair of spinners being set wide apart at the base, and the maxillae are more or less impressed across the middle. 6. Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer Lydd. Very common under stones, as Drassus lapidicohns. 7. Scotophaus hlackwallii (Thorell). Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). Also known A dark elongate mouse-grey spider, often found wandering about the walls of dwelling and outhouses at night. Known also as Dras- sus sericeus, Blackwall. CLUBIONIDiE Spiders with eight eyes, situated in two transverse rows. The tracheal openings lie immediately in front of the spinners. The tarsal claws are two in number, but the anterior pair of spinners are set close together at the base ; the maxillae are convex and not impressed across the middle. 8. Zora spinimana (Sundevall). Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). Known also as Hecaerge spinimana or macu- lata. 9. Cluhiona stagnatilis, Kulczynski. Lydd. Known also as C. holosericea, Blackwall. This species is usually fairly common amongst the dry sedge grass and rushes in swampy places. 10. Cluhiona terrestris, Westring. Yalding ; Gravesend (F. P. S.) ; Tunbridge WeUs (T. R. R. S.). Not uncommon in the summer time, when it may be found wandering about at night on the walls of outhouses, palings, etc. Known also as C amarantha, Blackwall. 11. Cluhiona reclusa, O. P.-Cambridge. Yalding. A rarer species than the last ; usually beaten from foliage and bushes in the summer time. 12. Cluhiona lutescens, Westring. Tonbridge. Rare ; but sometimes fairly abundant where it occurs amongst dry rushes and sedge grass in swampy places. 13. Cluhiona hrevipes, Blackwall. Yalding, Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). Not uncommon amongst foliage in the summer time. 14. Cluhiona pallidula (Clerck). Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). A larger species than any of the above, and usually fairly common amongst bramble bushes, where the female makes its egg-cocoon within the folded leaves. Known also as C epimelas, Blackwall. 15. Cluhiona corticalis (Walckenaer). Sevenoaks. Almost as large a species as the last-named. Not common ; under the bark of large elm and other trees in ancient parks. 1 6. Cluhiona phragmitis, C. L. Koch. Yalding, Tonbridge. Very common indeed amongst rushes and dry sedge grass in swamps, where the females construct a pure white silken retreat amongst the blades or under the bark of riverside pal- ings, posts, pollard willow trees, etc. Known also as C. deinognatha, O. P.-Cambridge. 17. Cluhiona compta, C. L. Koch. Gravesend (F. P. S.). A very small species, whose abdomen is striped diagonally on each side, similarly to that of C. corticalis. Not uncommon amongst the foliage of bushes and shrubs in the sum- mer time. 18. Chiracnnthium erraticum (Walckenaer). Yalding. Sometimes very common in the folded leaves of the various species of bramble in the summer time. The spider resembles a Cluhionid, but has longer legs and a red stripe down the abdomen. 19. Agroeca hrunnea (Blackwall). Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). Rarely found amongst dead leaves and at the roots of herbage in woods. Known also under Agelena. 227