VI. — Some Spiders and Mites from the Bermuda. Islands. 

 By Nathan Banks. 



The following pages contain a list of some spiders and mites 

 collected in the Bermudas by Prof. A. E. Verrill and some of his 

 assistants. Most of them were gathered the past spring, 1901.* 



Several of the spiders are immature, so that they cannot be fully 

 determined. Three of the spiders are described as new. There are 

 twenty-eight spiders in the list, which is more than twice as large as 

 any previous list. They are distributed in sixteen families ; the 

 Theridiida', with six species, leads in point of numbers ; eleven 

 families are represented by but one species. 



John Blackwall recorded six species of spiders from the Bermudas 

 ill ISOS.f They are as follows : 



1 . Loxosceles rufescens Lucas. + 



2. JEpeira gracilipes Blackw. + 



3. ThomisHs pollens Blackw. + 



4. Salticus diversus Blackw. 



5. Heteropoda venatoria Linn. 



0. Fill Stat a depressa Koch. 



His Epeira gracilipes, which was originally described from Rio 

 Janeiro, is probably the common JEpeira thelsii Walck. The Filis- 

 tata depressa is the same as F. hibernalis Hentz; Avhile his Salticus 

 diversus is a synonym of Plexipptis paykiiUi Aud. and Sav. 



In 1S89, Dr. George Marx reported on the spiders collected in the 

 Bermudas by Prof. Augelo Heilprin.J 



He had twelve species, as follows : 



1. Uloborus zosis Walck. 

 :.'. ISfephila clavip)es Koch. 

 -3. Cyclosa caudata Hentz. 



4. Epeira lahyrinthea Hentz. + 



5. Theridium tepidariorxim Koch. 



* These collections were made in April and May,' 1898, and from March 10th 

 to May 9, 1901. Probably many other species coiild be found in summer and 

 autumn. — A. E. V. 



f Notice of several species of Spiders sui)posed to be new or little known to 

 Arachnologists. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), ii, 1868, pp. 403-410. 



X A contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of the Bermuda Islands, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., 1889, pp. 98-101, one plate. Heilprin's collec- 

 tion was made in midsummer. Prof. VerrilPs in the spring. This may account 

 for part of the difference. 



