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Loc. Halmahera, Soah Konorah, Galela; also Ternate. 
Recorded by Thorell, Koch and Doleschall from Amboina and Buru. 
Genus Pandercetes L. Koch. 
Pandercetes isopus Thor. 
Ann. Mus. Genova, XVII, p. 309, 1881. 
Loc. Halmahera, Soah Konorah. 
A specimen obtained at the above locality seems identical with Thorell’s species which 
was recorded from the Fly River, New Guinea. 
Heteropoda Latreille. 
Heteropoda venatoria (Linn.) 
Pl. XXV, figg. 18, a, b,.c. 
Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1035, and all authors. 
Examples of this ubiquitous species were obtained at the following localities: Java, 
Buitenzorg; Borneo, Baram River; Celebes, Makassar; Halmahera, Soah Konorah, Patani; 
Ternate and Batjan. 
Note on the identity of Araneus venatorius Linn. 
Since the days of Latreille the name venatoria has been applied by almost universal 
consent to the spider identified above as Heteropoda venatoria Linn. But recently M. Simon 
(Hist. Nat. Araignees, II, p. 52, 1897) has advanced the opinion that such an identification 
is inadmissible and that the correct specific title for the spider is regia of Fabrieius. Un- 
fortunately no reasons are assigned for this change in nomenclature. After personally loo- 
king into the matter, however, I can find none that I consider adequate to justify the 
alteration that has been proposed. 
On p. 1035 of the 12% edition of the „Systema“ Linnaeus based the species venatoria 
upon: 1) a description given by Gronovius (Zoophylac. p. 217); 2) a figure and description 
published by Merian (Ins. Surinam. pl. XVIII, upper figure); 3) a figure and description 
given by Sloane (Nat. Hist. of Jamaica, pl. 235, fig. 1—2) and 4) upon a figure and de- 
scription published by Browne (Hist, of Jamaica, p. 420, pl. 44, fig. 2). Now a glance at 
the figures and descriptions given by Merian and Sloane show that the spider represented 
