BIIIANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 28. AFD. IV. N:0 1. 5 



has souie species distributed in South America, Myr o some 

 from the Cape Colony and from Kerguelen Land. 



The most important work on the spiders of Chile is that 

 of NicoLET in GrAY, Hisforiff fiska y politica de Chile, Zool. o, 

 Aracniths, 184.'f, but most of the species are insufficiently 

 and badly described. In Ann. de la Soc. ent. de France 1888 

 Mr Simon has published DéscrijttioHS de quelques Arachnides 

 du Chili et lleniarqiies synonijmiques sur quelques-unes des 

 especes décrites par Xicolet, and in Revista Chilena de Hi- 

 storia Natnrale An. V, Num. 1 he has newly published a 

 paper of a singular interest: Liste des arachnides recueilUs 

 par M. Ch. E. Porter en 1899 a Quilpué et a Molle, et par 

 M. B. WiLSON en acril 1900 au Bio Ayseu (Pafagotiie Occi- 

 dental e) et déscriptions d' especes noiivelles. lu addition to these 

 papers there are several small ones by Simon, who even in 

 his excellent work Hist. Naf. des Araignées ed. 2 has described 

 in notes numerous chilian spiders, and finally I must mention 

 the count Keyserling, in whose papers we find several chilian 

 species described, and F. O. P. Cambridge, who has worked a 

 little collection brought home by i)r Plate of Berlin, not to 

 mention other authors. 



Upsala, Dec. 7, 1901. 



