Ln the year.s 1892 — 03 Dr. Einak Lönnberg visited Florida 

 for the purpose of inakinp; zoologicaJ collections. From this 

 sojourn he also l)rought home a collection of spiders, which 

 bas 1)een kindly left to the disposition of the present author 

 and which is described in the following ])ages. 



The knowledge about the Floridan spiders seems to be 

 still rather unsatisfactory. Only quite small collections have 

 come into the hands of specialists. Scattered notes about 

 these have been communicated by Banks, Mc Cook, Peckham 

 a. o. All these notes have, however, been casual and therefore 

 been inserted in papers treating of other things besides. The 

 following account may therefore be the only one, which a 

 little more explicitly bears upon this subject. It may con- 

 sequentW be of interest, the more so as the material is com- 

 paratively rich, eoraprising not less than 57 species, 11 of 

 which are as far as I can tind new to the science. 



Most of this material is collected in the central part of 

 South Florida in Orange county, but there are also specimens 

 from the west coast. Hillsboro county and from Key AVest. 



Concerning the localities in which the spiders were 

 collected Dr. Lönnberg informs me that some spiders had 

 their favourite haunts at the shore of the lakes, where they 

 could be canght under boards, logs and similar objects. 

 Others were found in the dry pineland, where one species 

 (Lycosa sp.) used to make smootli vertical holes in the sand, 

 2;") cm. or more deep and 1 cm. wide. The big, hairy spiders 

 (Lycosa carolinensis?), grayish above and black beneath, and 

 the jet black ones (Lathrodectes mactans) with small red 

 markings were usually collefted under pieces of bark, stumps 

 and sueli things l\'ing on the ground. The latters are very 



