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AGELENIDES. Lucas (Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. ii, 455) has giveii a synopsis 

 of the species of the genus Tegenaria, Walck., agreeing with the enumera- 

 tion by Walckenaer (Hist. Ins. Apt.), except that the author adds a new 

 species, T. annulipes, from New Holland, which is introduced between T. 

 guyoni aud arborlcola. He has observed T. guyoni at Algiers, and confirms 

 the specific distinction from T. domestica. Like the latter it lives in houses, 

 but occurs also in woods ; these individuals are of a dark colour, which he 

 considers as the effect of the locality. Blackwall (ibid. 179) gives T. .wva 

 as a new British species. 



MYGALIDES. Tellkampf (Wiegm. Archiv. 1844, i, 321, pt. 8, f. 13-17) 

 has characterized a new genus, Antkrobia, apparently belonging to this 

 family. A. monmoiithia, from the Mammoth cave in Kentucky (U. S.), 

 scarcely two lines long, differs from all other spiders by the total want of 

 eyes. 



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PHRYNIUES. Van der Hoeven (Tydschr. x, 369) has examined the nerv- 

 ous system of Thelyphonus, and finds that there is not a series of ganglions 

 in the abdomen, as in scorpions, but that, as in Phryuus and the Araneidae, 

 two main cords proceed from the large ganglion of the cephalo-thorax to the 

 abdomen, and are only enlarged at the extremity into a small terminal 

 ganglion. In this manner the Phrynides are very determinately separated 

 from the Scorpiouides. 



SCORPIONIDES. Koch (Arachn. ii, pt. 1, 2) has figured a great number 

 of species of the genus Tityus, T. fallax, and striatus, from Africa ; hotten- 

 totta, F., Sierra Leone ; lineatm, Kl., mrgutus, KL, clatliratus, from the 

 Cape ; temulus, longimanus, with mncronatus, F., and varius (tumulus, F. ?), 

 from Java ; carinatus, mulatinus, congener, from America ; macrums, ducalis, 

 Mexico; arrogans, Brazil; griseus, F., from St. Thomas (West Indies); 

 and in conclusion, nebulosus, perfidus, fatalis, marmoreus, denticulutus, serenus, 

 infumatus, of which the origin is unknown. 



OBISIDES. Tulk (Ann. Nat. Hist, xiii, 55) has found in Obisimn ortho- 

 dactylum, Leach., viewed by the microscope, an immovable pectinated 

 appendage of white colour and transparent texture ; in addition, there is, 

 arising from the basal joint of the jaw-pincers (" chelicerae"), near the com- 

 mencement of the claws, a tuft of long pinnated hairs, converging at their 

 extremities so as to form a pencil reaching almost to the middle of the claws. 

 The author assured himself, by observations made on the living animal, 

 that this apparatus serves for cleaning the palps, and particularly their 

 didactyle forceps. From the resemblance which these instruments bear to the 

 combs (pectines) of the scorpion, he thinks it may be inferred that the 

 latter also are adapted for cleaning the palps, claws, and above all the sting. 



