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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 porro Zulu-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 ^^j ; verisimiliter in Annam quoque 

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

 Bermudas vocant, vitam degit haec araneà. Karsch (") exempla 

 ex insulis Guilbert et Marshall dictis vidit. 



Gel. McCook rationibus sat gravibus (') 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. 



Q) Arachn. recueillis par M. Weyers à Sumatra (!<"• envoi), loc. cit., p. 8. 



(3) Arach. recueillis en Birmanie par . . . Comotto, cet., in his 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., 1S68, 

 p. (5). 



CO Arachn. u. Myriapoden Mikronesiens, in Berliner Bnt. Zeitschr., XXV, Hft. I 

 (1885), p. 15. 



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

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

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

 ence of the species or its close allies among the fauna of the tropical interiors 

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

 color, which have been observed , and which 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 (venatorius) spider 

 has become cosmopolitan by the action of nature independent of the aid of man » 

 (loc. cit , pag. 137). 



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

 multo ante quam terrae illae calidae a navibus mercatoriis Europaeis frequentari 

 coeptae sunt, navibus aborigiitum longe lateque diffusa fuit — quod mihi quidem 

 veri simile videtur. 



