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SPIDERS COLLECTED BY THE DISCOVERY 



EXPEDITION 



WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES 

 FROM SOUTH GEORGIA 



By W. S. Bristowe, B.A., F.Z.S. 

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ANALYSIS OF THE COLLECTION 



HE collection comprises nineteen specimens which are attributable to three species 

 contained in tubes labelled as follows : 



Ascension Island 

 Artema mauricia Walck. i S. 



" 1925. Presented by Mr L. W. Shaw." 



Hermite Island, Cape Horn 

 Rubrius subfasciatus E. Sim. i ?, i young specimen. 



" St Martin's Cove. St. 222, 23. iv. 27. Sh. coll." 



South Georgia 

 Myro frigida sp.nov. 7 ?, 2 cJ, 7 young specimens from: 



1. E. Cumberland Bay. 3 ?. MS 10, 28. iv. 25. 



2. E. Cumberland Bay. i ?, i cj, 7 young. MS 71, 9. iii. 26. 



3. Grytviken. i S- 6. iii. 26. 



4. New Fortuna Bay. i 9. Beach Collecting. On Whale Bone. 



5. Wilson Habour. i ?. WS 62, 19. i. 27. Moss Dweller. 



6. South Georgia, i ?. 18. ii. 27. Found in jar labelled " Whale parasites". 



NOTES 



That the collection should comprise but three species is somewhat disappointing, 

 but, as I shall show below, it is probable that the total spider fauna of South Georgia 

 consists of a single species and that a very interesting one. If opportunity arises it is 

 to be hoped that spiders will be collected on other Antarctic islands and their discovery 

 on the Antarctic Continent would be of particular interest. After all Attids of the genus 

 Sitticiis were found living at 23,000 ft. on Mount Everest in spite of the absence of 

 vegetation, so it may not be too much to expect them on inhospitable Antarctic lands. 



Artema mauricia Walck., which was brought back from Ascension Island, is world- 

 wide in tropical and sub-tropical countries. It has a long list of synonyms including 

 A. atlanta Walck., Pholcus borboriicus Vinson and Artema convexa Bl., and has been 

 recorded under the last of these from St Helena, 700 miles south-west of Ascension. 



DEC 2 3 1931 



