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 SPIDERS They can be beaten from foliage or found monest, Salticus scenkus, will be well known to of houses in the bright sunshine. 29. Salticus scenicus (Clerck). Yalding, Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). A black species with white lateral stripes. Known also under Epiblemum. 30. Euophrys frontalis (Walckenaer). Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). Known also under Salticus. 31. Neon reiiculatus (Blackwall). Tonbridge. Known also under Salticus. 32. Ergane falcata (Clerck). Sevenoaks. Common amongst dry leaves in woods. Known also as Salticus or Hasarius falcatus. amongst herbage and under stones. The com- all observers, running and leaping on the walls 33. Heliophanus cupreus (Walckenaer). Folkestone. A shining black and coppery spider, found in some abundance on the coast. Known also under Salticus. 34. Ballus depressus (Walckenaer). Hurst Wood (T. R. R. S.). A very small brown flattened species, found amongst dead leaves and herbage. Known also as Salticus obscurus, Blackwall. 35. Pellenes tripunctatus (Walckenaer). Folkestone (Col. Le Grice). A very rare species. Examples of both sexes were found hopping about amongst the chalk lumps on the coast. PISAURID^ Spiders with eight eyes in three rows of 4, 2, 2 ; the small anterior eyes being some- times in a straight line, sometimes recurved and sometimes procurved. Those of the other two rows are situated in the form of a rectangle of various proportions, and are much larger than the eyes of the anterior row. The tarsal claws are three in number. Pisaura runs freely over the herbage, carrying its egg-sac beneath the sternum ; while Dolomedes is a dweller in marshes and swamps. 36. Pisaura mirabilis (Clerck) Yalding ; Hurst Wood (T. R. R. S.), Gravesend (F. P. S.). Known also as Dolomedes or Ocyale mirabilis. LYCOSID^ The members of this family are to be found running freely over the ground, and carry- ing the egg-sac attached to the spinners. Many of the larger species make a short burrow in the soil and there keep guard over the egg-sac. Eyes and tarsal claws as in the Pisaurida, with slight differences. ning rapidly over the dead leaves in the woods. Known also under Lycosa. 37. Lycosa ruricola (De Geer). Gravesend (F. P. S.). Very similar to the next species, but the male has a claw on the palpus and the female a much smaller vulva. Known also under Trochosa and as Lycosa campestris, Blackwall. 38. Lycosa terricola (Thorell). Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). Known also as L. agretyca, Blackwall, and under Trochosa. 39. Lycosa pulverulenta (Clerck). Yalding ; Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). Known also as L. rapax, Blackwall, and under Tarentula. 40. Pardosa lugubris (Walckenaer). Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). A very abundant spider in the spring, run- 41. Pardosa pullata {Ctrck). Yalding ; Tunbridge Wells (T. R. R. S.). Known also under Lycosa and as L. obscura, Blackwall. 42. Pardosa palustris (Linnaeus). Yalding. Known also under Lycosa and as L. exigua, Blackwall (in part). 43. Pardosa amentata (Clerck). Yalding ; River Hill (T. R. R. S.), Graves- end (F. P. S.). Very abundant on logs of wood or hatch- ways in meadows and by the riverside ; also