134 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 
Fiji Islands,’’** in which forty-seven of the seventy-eight forms 
discussed therein are described as new. Thorough collecting and 
a large amount of taxonomic work still remain to be done in most 
groups of Fijian insects. It is hoped that our collections and the 
reports which will be published on them will go some way toward 
making known the entomology of the region. 
The comparative paucity of beetles (Coleoptera), the abundance 
of cockroaches (Blattide), so far as individuals are concerned, 
and the small number of four-winged flies (Hymenoptera), ex- 
elusive of ants which are exceedingly abundant, is worthy of 
comment. 
While spiders (Arachnida) are not insects, the smaller ones in 
particular make up a conspicuous part of the terrestrial arthro- 
podan fauna of Fiji. 
A more detailed account of the occurrence, abundance and habi- 
tat of some of the commoner Fijian insects and other terrestrial 
arthropods as well as incidents which pertain to their taking may 
be of interest. 
Of the lower forms, spiders are exceedingly abundant, particu- 
larly small ones. A large yellowish species similar to our Epeiras 
is common in Suva and its huge webs extend from the trees to 
the telephone wires and perhaps over several of the latter with 
here and there one of the spiders resting on the delicate, glistening 
strands. 
A few scorpions were taken at Walu Bay and at Viria. They 
frequent damp places in the woods and are often found under the 
loose bark of decaying trees. The thatched roofs and walls of the 
natives’ houses often harbor them in numbers. 
Millipedes are common in damp places wherever some shelter 
ean be found. At the Tamavua quarry I saw a very large one 
dead; it measured seven inches in length and one-half inch in 
diameter. Under the rocks at the bottom of the valley along the 
Tamavua river near the quarry a moderate sized species was com- 
mon. When picked up it coiled quickly, at the same time emitting 
a large amount of a brownish and very pungent fluid from pores 
along the sides of the body. This fluid looks and smells like tinc- 
ture of iodine and stains the skin like it and certainly must be an 
effective means of defense. A small blackish form with white 
spots along the sides is not uncommon in moist woodland. 
, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, LXIV, No. 5, 401-499, 
1921. 
