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In Indo-Malesia haec species in Singapore, Sumatra, Pulo 

 Loz, Labuan, Borneo, Java et Celebes inventa est; Cel. Beccari 

 exempla ex Kaju Tanaui, Ajer Mancior et Sungei Bulu Su- 

 matrae domum reportavit; Van Hasselt ( x ) et Simon ( 2 ) spe- 

 cimina ex aliis locis ejusdem insulae viderunt. Conf. haec Stud., 

 locis supra cit. ; ad locos alios , ubi H. venatoriam captam ibi 

 diximus, addendi sunt: Birmania (Minhla), secundum Simon ( 3 ); 

 porro Zulù-land Africae , ins. Lu-chu, ins. Palmyra , Cuba et 

 Santa Cruz , Florida , Yucatan et Surinam : hi loci omnes se- 

 cundum McCook, loc. cit. In ins. Rodriguez et Magdalena in- 

 venta est, secundum Butler ( 4 ); verisimiliter in Annam quoque 

 (Dufour, loc. cit.) et (secundum Blackwall ( 5 )) in insulis, quas 

 Bermudas vocant, vitam degit haec aranea. Karsch ( 6 ) exempla 

 ex insulis Guilbert et Marshall dictis vidit. 



Cel. McCook rationibus sat gravibus ( 7 ) conatus est probare, 

 H. cenatoriam per regiones orbis terrarum calidas plerasque eam 

 ob causam esse diffusam, quod pulluli ejus, textis aere librati, 



(!) Midden Sumatra, cet., Aran., pag. 40. 



( 2 ) Arachn. recueillis par M. Weyers à Sumatra (l" envoi), loc. cit., p. 8. 



( 3 ) Arach. recueillis en Birmanie par . . . Comotto. cet., in bis Ann., XX (1884), 

 p. 336 (12). 



('•) Transit of Venus Expedition. Zoology of Rodriguez: Myriap. and Arachn., p. 10. 



( 5 ) Notice of several Spec. of Spid. , cet-, in Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 1868, 

 p. (5). 



( 6 ) Arachn. u. Myriapoden Mikronesiens, in Berliner Ent. Zeitschr., XXV, Hft. 1 

 (1885), p. 15. 



( 7 ) « Some of these facts are, (1) the early discovery of the species as already wi- 

 dely distributed; (2) its presence at so many different insalar points nearly or alto- 

 gether contemporaneous with their lirst visits by commercial nations; (3) the exist- 

 ence of the species or its dose allies among th« fauna of the tropical interiore 

 of continents far distant from coast lines; (4) and flnally the variations , chiefly in 

 color, which have been observed , and wbich would seem to require for their de- 

 velopment a longer period than that which has transpired since the commencement 

 of commercial communication with the localities in which the variations have 

 been wrought. While one may not conclude with absolute certainty from these 

 facts, they certainly warrant the theory that the Huntsman (venatorins) spider 

 has become cosmopoli tan by the action of nature independent of the aid of man » 

 (loc. cit-, pag. 137). 



Horum argumentorum pleraque vim suam fortasse perdunt, si H. venatoria , 

 multo ante quam terrae illae calidae a navibus mercatoriis Europaeis frequentari 

 coeptae sunt, navibus aboriginum longe lateque diffusa fuit — quod mini quidem 

 veri simile videtur. 



