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 [tlie late] W. .1. HAiNi;n\\, I<\M.S., Kiitoiii()l(>2:ist, Aiistr;\liiiii Miisonm. 



(Kiys. 1-S.) 



In 1875 the l:ito Sir \Villiaiii John (tlieii Mr.) Macloay litlcd (uit and 

 conduofed a S(!ientilic expedition for "a few niontlis' (UMiise aniontic the 

 Islands of New Guinea and Torres Straits," for wJiich piiipose lie chai'tered 

 the barque " Chevert." As a result of this expedition, which occupied 

 about six months, a large amount of material was collected, and a number 

 of papers dealing witli it were published in the two tirst volumes of " The 

 Pi'oceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales." Of the 

 matei'ial thus collected, the Araiieida^ were entrusted to the late Mi'. H. H. 

 I^ni'ton Bradley, and the gieater part of it was worked out bv hini, the 

 results being i-ecorded in three short papeis^. The total number of species 

 enumerated was foity-three, of which fourteen were described as new. 

 Since the demise of the author referred to, Mrs. Bradley, his widow, has 

 presented to the Trustees of the Museum a collection of Australian and 

 Papuan Araueidae. The last-named series is especially interesting, since 

 it proves to he of the Family Avicularidte, and is labelled: "Papua; 

 Chevert Expedition." No Terretelaris^^ were iTicluded by Mr. Bradley in 

 his papeis, owing, doubtless, to the poverty of literature upon the subject 

 at that time, and to which, small though it was, access was naturallv 

 difficult if not impossible. 



The majority of the s[tecies worked by Mi'. Bradley were of the 

 Family AigiopidiP; in addition to these there were a few Theridiida', one 

 of the Pholcida>, one of the Zodarida^, and a couple of the Clubionida^. 



The Terretelarians, of which the present paper deals, includes some 

 interesting forms. The genera repiesented are Mixtmlcini, Walck., one 

 species; Arhatiitia, L. Koch, two species; l><rlni()cnhis, Auss., one species; 

 ]diocti--<, \j. Koch, one species; Hddroii i/i-lic, L. Koch, one species; and 

 Aiiop.-n'itfhi, Rainb. and Pnll., one species. Also, included in this collection 

 there are a couple of mature specimens, and three half-grown examples of 

 Jlc.i'iifheJp, Auss. If there be no mistake about the locality label, then the 

 occurrence of this genus in Paj)ua is particularly intei-estiiig, since only 

 two species of the genus have been recoi'ded up to the present, and both 

 of these are fi'om New Zealand-. For further comments in respect of the 

 geiins under discussion see conclusion of this paper. 



The student will note that in the descriptions given below, the falces 

 are not included in measurements. 



1 Bradley — The Aranei<les of tlie " Chevert " Expedition, Part 1 (Proc. Linn. 

 Sor., N.S.W.,u. 1877, p. 137); On Some New F'ornis of .AraehnidiL' (o/i. rit.. p. 220, ])l. 

 ii.) ; and 'I"he Araiieides of the "Clievcrt" PJxpedition, Part 2 (<«,,. rit., ii., 1S78, 

 p. 11">)- 



- 1 1 oo-:^-— Pine. Zool. SOC. [;nli,l.. JlKll, ).. 27<). 



