1891.] ON THE SIMDEKS OF TH K ISLAND OP ST. VINCENT. 549 



Fig. * 10. Eidepiste umbratipalpis, <J ,x>. b\\. Genital segments. 

 11. Acrolophus vitellug, (j'.p. .")12. Genital segments. 



* 12. poeyi, ^J, p. 512. Genital segments. 



13. vjalsiitghami, (£ , p. .514. Genital segments. 



* 14. Amvphora noctidna, (j", p. 515. Genital segments. 



* 15. Feldcria dimidiella, ^ , p. 516. Geaital segments. 



* = Drawn from the type. 

 The figures are all enlarged. 



3. On the Spiders of the Island of St. Vincent. — Part I. 



By E. Simon '. 



[Received October 16, 1891.] 

 (Plate XLII.) 



[The Spiders dealt with in this memoir have all been obtained in 

 the island of St. Vincent, British West Indies, by Mr. H. 11. Smith, 

 who was sent to the island by Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., in 

 order that he might assist tiie joint Committee aijpointed by the 

 British Association and the Royal Society to report on and investigate 

 the Natural History of the "West-Indian Islands. 



M. Eugene Simon has, at the request of the Committee, been so 

 good as to undertake the examination and description of the 

 Spiders", and in this paper he gives the result of his examination of 

 the specinr^.ens belonging to the families Aviculariidfe, Filistatidse, 

 Uloboridse, Dysderidse, Oonopidse, Leptonetidse, Sicariidse, Caponi- 

 idse, Drassidse, and Palpimanidse. 



As onlv a portion of the Order Araneae is treated of in this first 

 result of M. Simon's studies it would be premature to give statistics, 

 but it is worth while to call attention to the facts that a great portion 

 of the species — about 80 per cent. — are found to be new, and that a 

 considerable number of the novelties are known to occur also in 

 Venezuela, which country M. Simon himself recently visited, with 

 the result of discovering a very large number of new Spiders and 

 insects. — D. S.] 



Ordo ARANE.ffi, Sund. 



Subordo ARANE^ THERAPHOS^, Walck. 



I . Familia A v i c u l a r 1 1 d ^. 



1, Sectio AviculariidcB trionychce. 

 Subfamilia Paratropin^. 

 Gen. Anisaspis, nov. gen. 

 Cephalotliorax humilis, fovea carens. Oculi fere ut in Paratropi, 

 sed inter se magis apiiropinqiuiti et subcontigui. Partes oris 



1 Communicated by Dr. D. Sharp, F.E.S., F.Z.S., on behalf of the Committee 

 for Investigating the Fauna and Flora of the West-Indian Islands. 



- With the exception of those belonging to the family Attidse, which will be 

 worked out by Mr. .Geo. W. Peckham, of Milwaukee. 



