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THE LITERATURE OF THE SUB-FAMILY ER1GONINAE. 



By Frank P. Smith. 

 {Read April 20th, 1906.) 



Recent research in connection with the Erigoninae having 

 necessitated the exhaustive examination of a vast amount of 

 literature, it has occurred to me that a list of the more important 

 publications bearing upon the subject might be of service to my 

 fellow workers. 



The following list is far from being a complete bibliography 

 of the subject. The number of works, both large and small, that 

 w T ere examined, could have been little short of a thousand ; and 

 although the compilation, from the Zoological Record and other 

 sources of reference, of a complete list of those appearing to 

 contain relevant information, would have been far simpler than 

 the selection of only those which included descriptions of new 

 species and genera or systematic modifications, I think that this 

 restricted bibliography will be of more use to the average worker 

 than had there been included several hundred papers dealing 

 chiefly with local records. I do not mean in any way to under- 

 rate the importance of distributional papers, but think it advis- 

 able to keep them distinct from publications containing matter 

 of a systematic nature. 



I do not wish to put forward any claim for this list of litera- 

 ture as to completeness. Working, as I have been, entirely 

 single-handed, it would be little short of miraculous if nothing 

 had escaped my attention ; but I trust that the omissions may, 

 at any rate, be not very numerous, and that the list may form 

 a pretty substantial nucleus for the worker who may wish to 

 assist in puzzling out the extremely involved history of the 

 Erigoninae. 



The following abbreviations are employed : — 



Ann. Mag. X. H. = Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 

 Proc. Dors. F. Club = Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History 



and Antiquarian Field Club. 



