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CONTRIBUTION TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARACH- 

 NIDAN FAUNA OF BRITISH NEW GUINEA. 



By W. J. Rainbow, 

 Entomologist to the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



(Contribution from the Australian Museum.) 

 (Plate VII.) 



Towards the close of last year Mr. C. de Vis, M.A., Curator of 

 the Queensland Museum, kindly placed in my hands, for the 

 purposes of determination, and in the event of new species, 

 description, a collection of Papuan Arachnida obtained in British 

 New Guinea by Mr. A. Giulianetti, under the direction of His 

 Excellency Sir Wm. MacGregor, M.D., K C.M.G. Unfortunately 

 many of the specimens were so damaged that it was imjDossible to 

 determine them, and consequently much material had to be 

 rejected. The majority of the specimens obtained were forms 

 already known to science, and these are all enumerated below. 

 Of the species new to science, the most interesting is that of a 

 Trap-door Spider of the subfamily Masterice, and for which I 

 propose a new genus : Antrochares. E. Simon in his great work, 

 " Histoire Naturelle des Araignees,"* records two genera in this 

 sub-family, namely : Masteria, L. Koch, and Accola, E. Simon, 

 to neither of which the species under consideration can be 

 assigned. Thus, there are now known three genera of six-eyed 

 Avicularidce, and these are distributed as follow : Masteria, the 

 island of Ovalau; Accola, Philippines and Venezuela; Antrochares, 

 New Guinea. 



* Vol. L, 2nd Ed., p. 189. 



