A CENSUS OF AUSTRALIAN A R A N Kl I >/E. 

 T.\ W. J. Rainbow, F.L.S., F. F.S., Entomologist. 



This is tlic first Catalogue of Australian Araneidse yet issued. 

 It contains the enumeration of about 1,200 species, spread over 

 285 genera and 24 families. In addition to the species listed in 

 the following pages, many new forms, at present in the hands of 

 different collectors, await description. Considering what a vast 

 area of this island continent has not yet been systematically 

 "collected," it is not possible to forecast the number of species 

 that must ultimately be made known, especially when we consider 

 the fantastically rich areas in the Northern Rivers Districts of 

 N. S. Wales, the tropical hinterland of Northern Queensland, 

 and what is known as " The Northern Territory." And to these 

 zones must be added those of Gippslandand of Western Australia. 



The systematic arrangement of this Census is based on Simon's 

 " Histoire Naturelle des Araignees," by the assistance of which 

 many generic corrections — especially in the family Sal tic id se — 

 have been made. It may, therefore, be assumed that our genera 

 have now been placed on a fair basis. A few changes of specific 

 names have been made owing to the occurrence of preoccupied 

 terms. 



THE TERRITELARI^. 



Family AVICULARID^E. 



Subfamily ACTINOPODIN/E. 



Genus Eriodon, Lair. 



(=Missulena, Walck.; Pachyloscelis, Lucas; Sphodros, Walck. ; 

 Closterochilus et Theragreles, Auss.) 



Obs. — Hogg remarks that ' ; the specimen on which Latreille 

 founded this genus was probably the first spider brought from 

 Australia to Europe." 1 



For Notes on the Nesting Habits of the Territelariae, see my 

 paper. " 



Eriodon crassum, 0. P. Camhr. 



Eriodon crassum, 0. P. Cambr., Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., x., 1 S6S, 

 p. 269. 



1 Hogg— Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 219. 

 - Rainbow— Bee. Austr. Mus., iv., 1, 1901, p. 5, etseq. 

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