SPIDERS 2. Harpactts hombergii (Scopoli). Brozted ; Epping Forest (F. P. S.). Rare under bark of trees, and recognizable by its linear ant-like form, black carapace, and pale clay-yellow abdomen and three tar- sal claws. 3. Segestria senoculata (Linnzus). Epping Forest (F. P. S.). Not common ; under bark of trees, in the crevices of loose stone walls and amongst detached rocks. Recognizable by its linear form and the black diamond-shaped blotches on the dorsal surface of the abdomen. 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 are set wide apart at the base, and the maxillae are more or less impressed across the middle. 4. Drassdes lapidosm (Walckenaer). Brozted ; Epping Forest (O. P.-C.). Very common under stones. Also known as Drauus lapidicolens. 5. Drassodes syfvestris (Blackwall). Epping Forest (O. P.-C.). 6. Scotaphieui blackwallii (Thorell). Brozted. A dark elongate mouse-grey spider, often found wandering about the walls of dwelling and outhouses at night. Known also as Drassus sericeus, Blackwall. CLUBIONID^E 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 maxillse are convex and not impressed across the middle. 7. Afiearia pulicaria (Sundevall). Brozted ; Epping Forest (O. P.-C.). 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. 8. Phrurolithm festivus, C. L. Koch. Chelmsford ; Epping Forest (O. P.-C.). Also known as Drassus propinqum, Black- wall. 9. Zora spinimana (Sundevall). Brozted. 10. Clubiona stagnatilis, Kulczynski. Broxted. Known also as C, holosericea, Blackwall. 1 1 . Clubiona terrestris, Westring. Brozted ; Epping Forest (O. P.-C.). 12. Clubiona reclusa, O. P.-Cambridge. Chelmsford. 13. Clubiona lutescfns, Westring. Brozted. 14. Clubiona brwipes, Blackwall. Epping Forest (O. P.-C.). I 5. Clubiona pallidula (Clerck). Brozted ; Epping Forest (F. P. S.). 1 6. Clubiona corticalis (Walckenaer). Danby Park. 17. Clubiona phragmitis, C. L. Koch. Dunmovv. 1 8. Clubiona compta, C. L. Koch. Brozted ; Epping Forest (O. P.-C.). 19. Chiracanthium erraticum (Walckenaer). Broxted. Known also under the name of C. carniftx. 20. Agroeca proximo, O. P.-Cambridge. Epping Forest. 21. Agraeca brunnea (Blackwall). Epping Forest (F. P. S.). ANYPH^NID^E The spiders of this family resemble those of the Clubionida in most respects, except that the tracheal stigmatic openings beneath the abdomen are situated about midway between the genital rima and the spinners, and not, as in the last family, immediately in front of the spinners. One species only is indigenous to Great Britain and is very common amongst the foliage of trees in May and June. 22. Anypbttna acctntuata (Walckenaer). Brozted ; Epping Forest (F. P. S.). 197
