. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Mr. R. H. Meade on the British Species 0/Phalangiidae. 355 Phalangium minutum. When I published my monograph, the habitat of this minute species was unknown to me : I had then seen but two specimens. I have since found another, in a collection of Phalangiidae made in the neighbourhood of Dublin. Genus Opilio, Herbst. Opilio histrix. I am glad now to be able to give this fine Harvest-man (our largest native species) a clear title to a place among the British Phalangiidse. In No
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. Mr. R. H. Meade on the British Species 0/Phalangiidae. 355 Phalangium minutum. When I published my monograph, the habitat of this minute species was unknown to me : I had then seen but two specimens. I have since found another, in a collection of Phalangiidae made in the neighbourhood of Dublin. Genus Opilio, Herbst. Opilio histrix. I am glad now to be able to give this fine Harvest-man (our largest native species) a clear title to a place among the British Phalangiidse. In November 1856, the Rev. A. M. Norman transmitted to me, alive, a fine adult female specimen, which he found under a mat " which lay before a window opening down to the ground into the garden," at Kibworth, near Market-Harborough, Leicester- shire. In November of the following year I had also the plea- sure of receiving a pair (male and female) of the same spiders from Mr. Norman, which were captured at Kibworth. In de- termining the name of these specimens fi'om my description, it struck this naturalist that a slight alteration in the account would make it more correct: viz. that the row of minute teeth with which the posterior edge of each ring of the abdomen is said to be furnished should have been called a row of small tubercles. Genus Leiobunus, Koch. Leiobunus Blackwallii, n. sp. L. forma et colore Leiobuno rotundo consimilis; sed differt cephalo- thoracis fronte pallida, corneis albo cinctis, macula abdominali ad extremum extensa, articulorum crurum juncturis albidis, tarsisque albido et fusco annulatis. Long. foem. 2, maris \\ lin. In form this species closely resembles the common Leiobunus rotundus; but it is about one-fourth smaller, and has the legs proportionably rather shorter and weaker. The general colour is also very similar, the body of the female being testaceous marked with brown. A pale band extends up the front and middle of the cephalothorax from th
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