^58 Mr. 1\. T. Pocock on Scorpiones and 



Order PE DIP A LP I. 



Family Tarantulidse. 



Subfamily Ad^ietin^^, nom. nov. 

 (= TarivttuUnce, Simon ; Neophrynince, Kraepelin.) 



Geuus AdmetuS, C. Koch. 



Adiuptus, C. Kocli, Uebersicht des Arachnidensystem, 1850, p. 81; 



Simon, Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. 1892, p; 51. 

 Neophrynus, Kraepelin, Abh. Hamburg. Anst. xiii. pp. 21 & 23 (1895). 



The gejius Admitus was establi.sheJ by C. Koch for the 

 following species of Phrynus'. — pumili'o, Perty, fuscimanus, 

 C. K., vwrgineviaculatvs, C. K., and pahnatus, Herbst; and 

 .^iiice none of these species have any other generic name older 

 than Admetiis by which the group could be designated in 

 accordance with accepted rules of nomcnchiture, AdmetuSj 

 being unpreoccu|jied, must be reserved for one of the species 

 mentioned; and since Simon, in 1895, distinctly selected 

 ^alnnitus, Herbst, as its ty|)e, and correctly diagnosed the 

 genus, it is not easy to see Kraepelin's reasons for proposing 

 tiie new name Neophrynus for the same section Uj)on dis- 

 covering that the names 'larantula and Phrynus, by which it 

 had been previously (though erroneously) known by Karsch, 

 'J'horell, and myself^ iiad to be used in a totally ditferent 

 sense. The fact that pumih'o, one of the species referred by 

 Koch to AdmetuSj is not congeneric with the others, does not 

 interlere with Simon's right to a|)j)ly Admctus to one of the 

 latter, nor confer upon Kraepelin the power of tlisregarding 

 the name as unusable. 



Thus compelled to adopt Admetus, I venture to propose 

 the new name Admetinai for the subfamily embracing the 

 three genera, Adinttus, Koch, lleterophrynus^ Poc, and 

 Phryncpsisy Poc. 



Admctus santarensis (Poc). 



Tarantula santarensis, I'ocock, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (Gj xiv. p. 284 

 (1894). 



Many specimens were taken at Santarem, one in a house, a 

 few in the forest, and many from a termite's nest upon the 

 campos. The species was based ujjon a single female example 

 brought from Santarem by Mr. W'iekham, 



This species differs from the forms that I have named 

 harhadensis, pulchripesj and Gervaiaii in possessing six long 

 spines upon the trochanter of the chela instead of five. 



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