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also T'Àlaosoma) being an Epeirid or Laterigrade. At page 43, the 
nearness of the genus Otiothops (AREIA), to Tinian (Dufour) 
is remarked upon; but, on account of t ers possessing an 
abnormal number-of joints in the legs of rh first pair, and the ab- 
sence (as stated by Macleay, but probably erroneously) of claws at 
the end of the tarsi of that pair, Dr. Thorell has set up a new res 4 
for i (Otiothopoide). This would hardly seem tenable on the 
(as Dr. Thorell remarks, p. 202) so good a naturalist as Dufour, 
who established the genus, repeatedly stated that it differed * from 
all known spiders by having no claws on the first pair of legs, 
i ol 
microscope.” It does not, therefore, seem particularly captious to 
conclude that it is more likely that aeg, overlooked the claws in 
Otiothops than that a spider so nearly a both in structure an 
form to Palpimanus should yet differ so aa in regard to the 
possession of these tarsal claws, A very striking character of Palpi- 
manus appears to have escaped Dr. Thorell as well as Dufour; and 
that is the possession of but two spinners—a character hitherto un- 
recorded of any known spider, though found in a very interesting 
new genus lately received from Bombay, a description of which, 
under the name Stenochilus Hobsonii, will shortly be publis hed. 
er is not intended by any means in the above criticisms to detract 
m the great and decided merits of Dr. Thorell’s wor re 
Gade ied to him for the first general work on araneology (beyond 
the mere limits of a cyclopzdia-artiele) that has ever appeare¢ 1n 
the English language. To say that the limits ie in al! cases 
by Dr. Thorell to the genera and families of Aranew will resist all 
efforts that might be made to alter or modify them, would be to make 
the very improbable assertion that the science of aug ee is in 
capable of further modification or improvement. As it purae 
we have in this present work a text-book for English poe of 
Aranez which will soon be found to be indispensable to the study 
of British (as well as European) Spiders.—O. P. CAMBRIDGE. 
Flint Chips: a Guide to Prehistoric Archeology, as tiim by Py the 
Collection in the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury. By 
Srevens. Svo, with Illustrations. London, 1870. 
Caratoeurs are proverbially dry reading; and it is rare to find a 
publication of this character both interesting and instructive. Mr. 
Stevens has fortunately fulfilled both these requirements of book- 
making, and in ‘ Flint Chips’ has not only given us a very readable 
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