458 Mr. R. I. Pocock o/j Scorpions, Pedtpalpt^ 



last volume of ' Die Arachniden Australiens ' Keyserling 

 records three more. Consequently it will not, I think, be far 

 wide of the truth to say that up to the present time only about 

 half a dozen species of spiders have been recorded from this 

 interesting archipelago. The material I have been able to 

 examine has added considerably to the list, the number of 

 known species now amounting to twenty-nine. 



Concerning the affinities of the fauna, it need only be said 

 that it closely resembles, so far as genera and also so far as 

 species are concerned, that of Papua and the neighbouring 

 islands of the Austro- Malayan seas. 



The species marked with an asterisk are unknown to me. 



Order Scorpiones. 

 Genus HORMUEUS, Thorell. 



1. Hormurus australasice (Fabr.). 



Hormurus australasice (Fabr.), Syst. Eut. p. 399 (1775) ; and all recent 

 authors. 



Log. New Georgia {H.M.8. 'Penguin^), and probably 

 Shortland Island (C. Al. Woodford). 



2. Hormurus Karschii, Keyserling. 



Hormurus Karschii, Keyserling, Die Arachniden Australiens, 1885, 

 p. 31. 



Log. New Georgia (H.M.S. ^Penguin'). The British 

 Museum has also received from Mr. Simpson specimens of 

 this species from the Solomon Islands. It is common in New 

 Guinea. 



Order Pedipalpi. 



Genus Charon, Karsch. 



1. Charon Orayi^ Gervais. 

 Charon Grayi, Gervais, Ins. Apt. iii. p. 4 (1842). 



Loc. New Georgia [H.M.S. ' Penguin '). 



Previously recorded by Prof. Kraepelin from the Solomon 

 Islands. A comparison between the specimens procured in 

 New Georgia and the typical example from the Philippines 

 leads me to think the synonymy of the species given by 

 Prof. Kraepelin is probably correct (see Abh. naturwiss. Yer. 

 Hamburg, xiii. p. 42, 1895). 



