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saw, at Guildford, among some course herbage, a small dome- 

 shaped snare, such as described above, but the architect was not 

 at home. Probably it had fallen as prey to some lizard. The 

 dome of the web was very closely woven. These spiders are very 

 small ; they may be found among coarse heibage, under ledges of 

 I'ocks, among reeds in marshes, and in angles between branches of 

 trees. None of the Linyphiina? construct oibicular snares. An 

 immature Lhiyphia, sp. collected by me was tjiken with the sweep- 

 net. They do not appear to be very numerous. 



Snh-famihj TETRAGNATHIN^. 



This sub-family is di\ided into seven groups, for which Simon 

 proposed the following names : Cyatholipete, Pachygnathese, 

 Tetragnathejw, Metea?, Nesticete, Azilieie, and Diphyefe. The 

 third and fourth of these are represented in the Australian fauna. 



Seven genera have been assigned to Tetragnatheje and two of 

 these occur in Australia, namely Tetraijncdlia, Latr., and Eucta, 

 Sim. 



The genus Tetragnatha is very widely destributed, its geo- 

 graphica,! area being defined as follows : " Orbis totius reg. calid., 

 temp, et frigidje."^" The majority of Australian species occur up 

 north, but two, at any rate, are found in Tasmania : T. niargari- 

 tata, L. K., Port Mackay ; T. ferox, L. K., Bowen, Port Mackay, 

 and Rockhampton ; T. rubriventris, Dol. {^hipafa, L. K), Port 

 Mackay and Bowen ; T. cylindrica, Walck. (?), Sydney ; T. conica, 

 L. K., Bowen, Sydney, and Tasmania ; T. lutuhercidata, L. K., 

 Rockhampton, Bowen, Port Mackay, Peak Downs, Brisbane and 

 Sydney ; T. demissa, L. K., Bowen, Peak Downs, Rockhampton, 

 Gayndah and Sydney; T. (jemmata, L. K., Port Mackay ; 7'. valida, 

 Keys., Peak Downs, Gayndah and Sydney ; 7'. jrruteiisa, Walck., 

 Rockhampton, The Pelew Islands, and Ovalau, Fiji. Eucta is re- 

 presented in Australia by two species, one apparently peculiar to 

 our mainland, and the other a Malaisian form. They are E. 

 cavdifera, Keys., Sydney ; and E. ongrdlla, Thor., Rockhampton 

 and Malaisia. The range of this genus is : " Europa ; Reg. 

 mediterr. ; Afr. occid. (filum, E. Sim.), India ; 3 ii\)om&, {caudicnla, 

 Karsch) ; Malaisia (angniUa, javcuia, Thorell) ; Nova-Hollandia 

 {vaudifpra, Keyserl.) ; Amer. sept, (vennifurmis, Emert.)"'" 



10 Simon— Hist. Nat. des Araigiit'es, 2nd cd., i., 1S92, p. 724. 

 " Simon — Loc. cit., p. 725. 



