A.RACHNIDES ARANEIDES RETITELAR] 1 71 



Ero with live each; Linyphia with three, Corynites and Erigone \\ith two, 

 ;ind Anaiidnis, 1 Clv;i. l>iclacata. Euryopns, Elegia, and Sehellenbcrgia with 

 one each. Elegia, ( 'orynitis, Anandnis, Thyelia, Clya. I >ielacata, and Schel- 

 lenhergia an- all peculiar to the Ternaries, Schellenbergia to Oeningen, the 

 others to amber. Nearly all the species arc from amber, hut beside tlie 

 Sfihellenbergia from Oeningen there i- a species of Erigone and two of 

 Einvphia from IItt, and t\vo species of Thendium from Oenin^en as well 

 as another fn>m Ai\. 



America, however, does not hear her proportionate share in this repre- 

 sentation, liein^ poorer even than the .stratilieil deposits of Europe, whereas 

 in every other -roiip it is either heller represented or falls short by only a 

 !e spei There is a single >pecies of Linvphia, two of Theridiuin, 



and somi OCOOna referred for con\ eiiiein'e to the comprehensive genus 



Aranea. 'That two ol' the three species known in the perfect state should 

 belong to the genus most highly favored in the European Tertiaries is a 

 point worth noting. 



The family is he-t rej'res.-nted in Europe i especinlly in the Mediterra- 

 nean district) and warm temperate' America, but a few have been found in 

 the Ea.-t Indies. < November, 1SS1.) 



in-et, in his recent investigation of the spiders of Aix, found but a 

 sinirle -p : ' this tamiK amon^ the eighteen Araneides described by 



him. He referred ir to Ariamnes. 



ARANEA l.inn^. 



I'mlerthis broad generic name are placed notices of some egg-COCOons 

 \\hich are like those made by species of this Lrroiip and which have been 

 found at no less than three distinct localities. I am not aware that any 

 such remains have before I.et-ii noticed. 



AKAXEA COLUMBIA. 

 I'l. 11, Fi-s. i, 2. 



Aranni roliimliin Si'inlilcr, K'I'II. I'ruKr. Ki-.il. Surv. C;ni., |sTi;-'77, ti'.:!-164 (1878). 



Among the stones obtained bv 31 r. Dawson in Hritish Columbia are 

 several containing the flattened remains of the egg-cocoons of Araneides. 

 There are no less than eight of them, of different shapes and sizes, occurring 



1 Aiiumlrus is credited with one spi-i-ii-s, Inn it is not described (Menge, Lebenszeichen, etc., p. 7). 



