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Genus Heteropoda, Latr. 

 (=Sarotes, Sund.; Ocypete, C. Koch ; Ethilla, Simon). 



Obs. — Heteropoda venatoria, Linn., I regard as the type species 

 of this genus. Simon in his "Histoire Naturelle des Araignees," 

 vol. ii., 1897, p. 52, gives H. regia, Fab., as the type, and in a 

 footnote on the same page remarks, although he gives no reason 

 for saying so. that "nearly all authors since Latrielle (Gen. Crust., 

 ■etc., i., p. 114) have erroneously applied to that species the name 

 of Aranea venatoria, Linn." Pocock, in " Fauna of British 

 India — Arachnida," in 1900, although he should have had ample 

 opportunities of verifying Simon's statement, gives as the type of 

 tliis genus H. venatoria, which would seem to show that much 

 confusion still exists in respect of H. venatoria and H. regia. 

 Until this is cleared up, I shall be content to regard H. venatoria 

 as the type. 



Heteropoda cervina, L. Koch. 



Sarotes cervinus, L. Koch, Die Arach. des Austr., i., 1875, p. 673, 



tab. lx., figs. 4, 4a, 46, 5, 5a. 

 Heteropoda cervina, Simon, Rev. Spar., 1880, p. 50. 

 /fab. — Queensland and New South Wales. 



Heteropoda jugulans, L. Koch. 



Sarotes jugulans, L. Koch, Die Arach. des Austr,, ii., 1876, 



p. 852, tab. lxxiii., figs. 4, 4a. 

 Heteropoda jugulans, Simon, Rev. Spar., 1880, p. 49. 

 Hab. — Peak Downs, Queensland. 



Heteropoda keyserlingi, Hogg. 



Heteropoda keyserlingi, Hogg, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1902, 

 p. 418, fig. 85. 

 Hab. — Peak Downs, Queensland. 



Heteropoda longipes, L. Koch. 



Sarotes longipes, L. Koch, Die Arach. des Austr., i., 1875, p. 660, 



tab. Ii ii. , figs. 3, 3a, 36. 

 Heteropoda longipes, Simon, Rev. Spar., 1880, p. 49. 

 Sarotes longipes, Hogg, Rep. Horn Expl. Exped., ii., Zool., 1896, 

 p. 339. 

 Hab. — New South Wales, Victoria, and Central Australia. 



