522 ARACHNIDA FROM THE SOUTH SEAS, 



Only one specimen, and that immature, was collected. I have 

 some doubt as to whether this is really Sorensen's T. rapax. 

 From the fact that the specimen obtained is immature, it is not 

 safe to speak with certainty, hence its present location is only 

 tentative. T. rapax is the type both of its family and genus, 

 and was originally recorded from the Island of Viti.'^ 



Suborder Aranese VeraB. 



Family ULOBORID^. 



Genus Uloborus, Latr. 



3. Uloborus geniculatus, Oliv. 

 Loc. — Malekula, New Hebrides. 



This is a widely distributed species occurring in nearly all 

 tropical regions. 



Family DRASSID^. 



Subfamily DRASSODIN^. 



Genus Leptodrassus, E. Sim. 



Amongst the species collected by Mr. "Walker there is one 

 which apparently belongs to the genus Leptodrassus. This is 

 described below. According to Simon, " Le genre Leptodrassus 

 compte six especes dans la region mediterraneenne et une dans 

 I'Asie centrale [Drassus hajnijmlpus, Croneb.) ; mais ce genre 

 est aussi represente dans 1' Afrique occidentale et australe et 

 meme dans les Andes de 1' Amerique du Sud par des especes 

 encore inedites " ;t and again at the foot of his diagnosis of the 

 genus, its distribution is defined as "Europa max. austr.; Africa 

 sept. ; Asia occid. et centr ; " | so that the occurrence of the 

 genus on the Island of Malekula, in the New Hebrides, is inter- 

 esting. At first I was somewhat doubtful as to the systematic 

 position of the form under consideration, but a careful comparison 

 of the Araneid with Simon's definition of the genus Leptodrassusi 



* Sorensen, Die Arach. Aust. ii. 1886 (Supplement), pp. 57-59, tab. 5, fig. 2. 



t Simon, Hist. Nat. des Araign. (2nd ed.), 1893, Vol. i., p. 358. 



X Loc. cit., p. 364. 



