6 MR. AND MRS. PBCKHAM OK [May 7, 



Leopold to issue stringent orders for the protection of this 

 remarkable creature. Its flesh is said to be excellent eating, and 

 there is no reason why an attempt should not be made to domesti- 

 cate it. 



" At the present time the known habitat of the Okapi (as this 

 animal is called by the natives) consists of the forests of the Ituri 

 and the western banks of the Semliki in the Congo Tree State, 

 and the adjoining district of Mboga in the Uganda Protectorate." 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On Spiders of the Family Attida found in Jamaica. 

 By G. W. Peckham and E. Gr. Peckham \ 



[Eeceived April 12, 1901.] 



(Plates II.-IV.') 



Most of the Spiders described in this paper were collected 

 by us some years ago. "We have also received some specimens 

 from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell, and from Mr. Taylor of Kingston. 

 Other Attidse that have been described from Jamaica are : — 

 Mayjjtusa melanognathus Lucas ; Saitis annce Cockerell, ' Canadian 

 Entomologist,' p. 343, 1894 ; AnoTca peckhamii, Cockerell, 'Journal 

 of Institute of Jamaica,' vol. ii. p. 221, 1893 ; Zygohallus suavis 

 Peckham, " Spiders of the Homalattus Group," Occ. Papers 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. of Wisconsin, vol. ii. p. 173. Anoica moneagua 

 Peckham, " Spiders of the Marptusa Group," Occ. Papers 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. of Wisconsin, vol. ii. p. 127, 1894, is identical 

 with Anol'a ^^ecMainu Cockerell. The thirteen species now 

 described probably give a fair idea of the Attid fauna of the 

 island. The genera are like those of Central and North America, 

 excepting Gybele, which we have from St. Vincent, and Nilalcantha, 

 which is new. 



Key to the Attidse of Jamaica. 



Males. 



(^Legs of the first, third, and fourth pairs nearly equal ; cephalo- 

 I thorax with red hairs and white bands on the thoracic slope 



1 ■{ and lower sides ; length 5"5-6'5 mm Cybele grisea. 



I First and fourth, or first and third, or third and fourth legs 



^ plainly longer than the others 2 



f Legs 13 4 2; palpus blackish, with a fringe of very long white 



o J hairs on each side to the end of tarsus Cybele albopcdpis. 



1 First and fourth legs longer than the others 3 



[Third and fourth legs longer than the others 4 



1 Communicated by E. I. PococK, F.Z.S. 



^ For the explanation of the Plates, see pp. 15, 16. 



