some South- American AvIculariiJfe. 95 



have the tarsal pad of the fourth leg divided by a band of 

 bristles ; but since these examples are doubtfully mature, the 

 carapace measuring only 13 millim. in length, these characters 

 cannot be relied upon as of any systematic value. 



CyrtophoUs Bonhotei (F. Cambr.). 



Lyroscdus Bonhotei, F. Cambr. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii, 

 p. 324, pi. Yu. figs. 6, 6 a (1901). 



Loc. Nassau, in the Bahamas {J. L. BonJiote), 



CyrtophoUs venatorius (Linn.) *, 



Aranea venatoria, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 1035 (in part.). 



Mij'iale hartholomfBi, Latreille, Nouv. Annales Mus. i. p. 71 (1802) ; 



Walck. Ins. Apt. i. p. 214 (1837). 

 ? Mygale incana, C. Koch, Die Arachn. ix. p. 70, fig. 735 (1842). 

 Crypsidromus gypsutor, Becker, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxii. p. 85, pi. ii. 



tig. 11 (1879). 

 Cyi-tophulis antillayia, Thorell, Bih. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xx. pt, iv, 



no. 4, p. 25 (1891). 

 ? CyrtophoUs sp., Simon, llist. Nat. Araign. i. p. 143 (1892) (in note). 



Loc. Lesser Antilles. 



* Linnfeus based Aranea venatoria upon two .?pecies — tbe well-linown 

 form which Latreille made the type of his genus Heternpoda imder the 

 name venatoria and the West-Indian Ayiculariine CyrtophoUs. The latter 

 is indicated in the last of the fom* references Linnaeus cites, the remaining 

 three refening to the species of Heieropoda. This orerwhelming prepon- 

 derance of references in fayour of Heteropoda no doubt influenced Latreille 

 in his determination of the species venatoria. Unfortunately Fabricius 

 antedated Latreille, and in 1793 assigned the name regia to"the species 

 Latreille called venatoria, thus by unconscioits elimination fixing the 

 name venatoria on to the second species included by Linnaeus under that 

 name. 



Further confusion was created by the action of Fabricius in ascribing 

 the name venatoria, whether intentionally or not is no matter, to a species 

 not referred to by Linnaeus under venatoria. I>innaeus included the spider 

 from Antigua described by Browne ('Jamaica,' p. 420) as Tarantula 

 rrifescens major &c., and represented on pi. xliv. tig. 2, but not the Taran- 

 tula major subhirsutamh terramnidulans described on the same page and 

 represented by fig. 3 on the same plate. It was upon this last-named 

 species that Fabricius fixed the name venatoria; hence the fixation is 

 without yalue and is null and yoid. So far as any action taken by 

 Fabricius in the matter is concerned, the only reason that can be aUeged 

 for setting aside liatreille's interpretation of the "name venatoria is that 

 giyen above, namely, the preyious ascription of tbe name regia to the 

 same species by Fai)ricius. If this be considered sufficient, then the name 

 venatoria falls upon the Antigua Ayiculariine belonging to CyrtophoUs. 



I belieye, howeyer, that Linnaeus himself was the first to giye a second 

 name to the species he first referred to venatoria. Immediately following 

 the diagnosis of veyiatoria is that of Armiea oceUata, wliicii is almost 

 certainly based upon the male of the species that Fabricius named regia. 

 The size, ocelliform spots on the femora, paired patches on the carapace, 



