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THE EOTAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



SCIENCE 



PAPEES READ BEEOEE THE ACADEMY. 



I, — A List op Spidees Captfeed iir the Seychelles Islajtds, by 



Peoeessoe E. Peeceval Weight, M. D., E. L. S. ; ivith Desceip- 



Tir oE Species sttpposed to be i^ew to AeachjS"ologists, by 



J lackwall, E. L. S. ISTotes and Preface, by the Eey. 0. P. 



^iDGE, M. A., C. M. Z. S., &c. Plates 1 & 2. 



[Eead, Jfovemter 13, 1876.] 



[The following descriptions of Seychelles Spiders were prepared by 

 my old friend Mr. Blackwall, rather more than six years ago. Their 

 publication has been tinayoidably delayed, and a request has been made 

 to me by Dr. E. Perceval Wright (with Mi-. Blackwall's kind assent) to 

 revise them, and to add such annotations as the progress of Araneology 

 in the past six years might seem to require. In doing this, I have 

 had an advantage not possessed by Mr. Blackwall ; and that is, typical 

 examples of many closely allied species for comparison with the types 

 (kindly sent to me by Dr. "Wright) from which Mr. Blackwall's descrip- 

 tions were made. 



Although not in accordance with the systematic arrangements now 

 generally followed, I have, of course, not altered that which Mr. 

 Blackwall has adopted in the present list, and which he himself esta- 

 blished, many years ago, on strong grounds of, at least practical, oonve- 



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