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 A HISTORY OF SURREY DRASSID^E 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 are set wide apart at the base, and the maxillae are more or less impressed across the middle. 6. Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer). Horsley (F. P. S.). Usually common beneath stones in every locality. 7. Drassodes cupreus (Blackwall). Woking. This is a darker spider than the last. The mandibles of the male are less developed and the tibia of the palpus is shorter and broader. The central tongue of the vulva of the female is not so much dilate behind. It may be considered a sub-species. 8. Drassodes troglodytes (C. L. Koch). Woking. Under stones in pastures and on grass- lands. Can be recognized by the absence of dorsal spines on the tibiae of the third and fourth pairs of legs. 9. Drassodes syhestris (Blackwall). Woking. Not uncommon amongst dead leaves in woods. 10. Scotophteus blackwallii (Thorell). Wimbledon. A dark elongate mouse-grey spider, often found wandering about the walls of dwellings and outhouses at night. CLUBIONID^: 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, and the maxillae are convex, not impressed across the middle. 11. M icaria pulicaria (Sundevall). Horsley (F. P. S.). A small dark spider, iridescent and shining, with a white cincture round the middle of the anterior half of the abdomen. Known also as Drassus nitens, Blackwall. 12. Phrurolhbus festivus, C. L. Koch. Wimbledon. 13. Agrceca brunnea (Blackwall). Lonesome (J. Dallas). 14. Agrceca proximo (O. P.-Cambridge). Wimbledon. The egg-cocoon of this species is a familiar object to the field naturalist ; a white silken sac shaped like an inverted wine-glass and hung by the stem to the stalks of rushes, heather, etc. The spider subsequently covers the silk with a layer of mud. 15. Zora spinimana (Sundevall). Horsley (F. P. S.). Common everywhere amongst herbage. 1 6. Clubiona phragmitis, C. L. Koch. Carshalton, Wimbledon. 1 7. Clubiona pallidula (C. Clerck). Horsley, Wimbledon Common (F. P. S.) 1 8. Clubiona stagnatilis, Kulczynski. Horsley (F. P. S.). 19. Clubiona reclusa, O. P.-Cambridge. Carshalton. 20. 21. Clubiona lutescens, Westring. Carshalton. Clubiona terrestris, Westring. Horsley (F. P. S.). 22. Clubiona trivialis, L. Koch. Wimbledon, Woking. 23. Clubiona compta, C. L. Koch. Horsley, Wimbledon Common (F. P. S.). 24. Clubiona brevipes, Blackwall. Horsley (F. P. S.). 25. Clubiona corticalis, Walckenaer. Horsley (F. P. S.). 26. Clubiona diversa, O. P.-Cambridge. Wimbledon Common (F. P. S.). 27. Chiracantbium erraticum (Walckenaer). Carshalton. Common on the roadsides among bramble leaves. This spider is also known as C. carnifex. 1 80