AKACllNIDA l'l{()M TllK SOLOMON ISLANDS. 



By W. .1. Uainuow, K.L.S., K.lvS., Lntoiuologist. 



(Fiu-s. l-C.) 



Tho pivsent ]y.\\n'y coi.lains notes ..f ]).vviousl3' recorded 

 forms and descriptions of a new yeniis and new species from 

 tlie Solomon Islands. 



To the Museum Collection there has been accumulatiiitr for 

 some time material collected by missionaries stationed in the 

 Solomon Island g-roup, as well as by occasional visitors. 

 Recently Mr. W. W. Frop^gatt paid a flying visit to this 

 interesting archipelago, and while there collected such 

 Arachnida as came his way, and these specimens he has been 

 good enough to present to the Trustees. Specimens collected 

 by Mr. Froggatt had been carefully handled, but much of the 

 old collection in our stores had been more or less roughly 

 treated. Species, such as Xqihihi iinn-iih(f'i, Walck., Ar<ji"i'r 

 JenpanVnia, Poc, (hi.t^'rurautha xlili'!f<^r, Poc, and (1. un'lnlln-n, 

 Poc, are evidently very abundant on the islands. 



It is remarkable how little is known of the Arachnid 

 fauna of the Solomons. In 1898, Pocock published a list of 

 the -Scorpions, Pedipalpi, and Spiders of the Solomon 

 Islands" ^ in which he recorded two Scorpions, one Pedipalp, 

 and twenty-eight species of Araneida?. Some of the species 

 recorded by Pocock are not included in our collection, but most 

 of them are, and to these I now add twenty-three additional 

 forms. Since Pocock's paper, just quoted (xapra) the same author 

 published another :—" Scorpions, Pedipalpi, and Spiders 

 collected by Dr. Willey in New Britain, the Solomon Islands, 

 Loyalty Islands, etc." "^ and in this he includes two Scorpions 

 recorded in his previcuis contribution, and one other 

 (Arrhlsou^etras perjidas, Keys.), one Pedipalp (then new to 

 science) and one Spider which was also new. Thus we now^ 

 know of fifty-six Arachnids from the Solomons. Doubtless 

 when the fauna of these islands shall have been more 

 thoroughly collected the number of species recorded will be 

 much greater. Those species marked with an asterisk are 

 now I'ecorded for the first time. 



1 Pocock— Ann. Mag. Nat Hist., (7), i, 1S9S, p. 4.S7, pi. xix. 



2 Pocock— Willcy's Zool. Results, 1898, p. 95. 



