APPENDIX V. 
ARANEIDAE OF THE CLARK EXPEDITION TO NORTHERN CHINA— 
BY H. R. HOGG, M.A., F.Z.S. 
HE small collection of spiders herein described were taken during the 
R. S. Clark expedition to Northern China, in the autumn of 1908 and 
early part of 1909, by Captain H. E. M. Douglas, V.C., D.S.O., R.A.M.C. 
The districts from which they came were Yiin-t’ing Shan, in the Chiao- 
ch’éng Shan, a mountainous forest-country ninety miles west from T’ai-yiian 
Fu, Shansi, and Yii-lin Fu, in North Shensi, a dry sandy area on the borders 
of the Ordos desert. 
Owing: probably to the time of year, the specimens taken cannot be 
supposed to represent the Arachnid fauna of the district, an outlying part of 
what is known as the Indo Malay. A large proportion of the number have 
not reached the adult stage. 
They comprise eight species of four families, and two of the latter, 
Argiopidae and Drassidae, are represented by a single specimen only of the 
genera Araneus, Clerck, and Drassodes, Westring. 
There are three specimens of Thomisidae of the genus Diaea, Thorell, the 
remainder being all Lycosidae of the genera Lycosa, Latreille, Pardosa, 
C. Koch, and Evippa, Simon. 
Evippa is a small genus whose members are recorded from the deserts of 
N. Africa, Palestine, and China; but the distribution of the others are 
world-wide. 
The Drassodes appears to agree closely with D. lapsus, described by 
Rev. O. P. Cambridge, from Yarkand,* and the Diaea is perhaps D. subdola 
Cambr., but none of the others seem to have been previously noted from 
India, China, Burma, or the neighbourhood. The known species of Araneus 
and the Lycosidae are so numerous, and many so widely spread, that they 
may have been recorded from even so far as Japan on the one side, or Western 
Europe on the other. As I cannot trace them I have taken them to be new 
species. 
* Second Yarkand Mission, pt. VIII., Arachn: O.P. Cambridge, 1885. 
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