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plates in quarto have been issued. In addition to Continental examples 

 of the class, there are described spiders from New Caledonia, New 

 Guinea, New Zealand, and some of the Polynesian Isles. The chief 

 materials have, however, been obtained from the north-east and eastern 

 parts of Australia. South Australia has furnished only one species 

 (Lycosa lacertosa, p. 952, t. 82, f. 6) ; it is from Adelaide. That only 

 one species of spider is recorded from this Province will appear most 

 extraordinary ; but the knowledge of the existence of many forms and of 

 remarkable variety proves most conclusively that this department of 

 zoology has been lamentably neglected by us. The difficulties attending 

 their preservation can no longer be an excuse for overlooking these 

 creatures ; and the study of their habits, which I believe to be in the 

 highest degree interesting, especially the wonderful mimicry of some and 

 the intelligence exhibited by others, has at all times been accessible to- 

 ns. There cannot be a doubt that the field of observation is an extensive 

 one, and as soon as the student shakes off a natural antipathy to 

 spiders he will find in them much to encourage him to devote a large 

 share of attention to these much maligned animals. 



Directions for the preservation of arachnids will be found in Mr.. 

 O. P. Cambridge's paper " On some new genera and species of Araneidea" 

 — Annals and Magazine of Natural History, January, 1877 — which, 

 moreover, contains the description of another South Australian spider 

 (Aganippes subtristis), the type of a new genus, obtained at Adelaide. 

 Five other Australian species are here described. Further, supplement- 

 ing the great work of Koch, is a paper by H. EL B. Bradley on the 

 araneides of the Che vert Expedition, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S W., vol 2. 



Class Crustacea.— Milne Edward's " Histoire Naturelle de& 

 Crustaces," 3 vols., 1834-41, is absolutely indispensable to one occupied 

 in the study of Crustaceans. And though I am not aware of the publi- 

 cation of any work specially devoted to this branch of Australian 

 Zoology, yet several Decapodous Crustaceans which inhabit the shore*- 

 of this continent are described and figured in the following 1 works : — 

 Dana, " U. States Exploring Expedition, Crustacea," (1852-53.) 

 t Miers, " Zoology of the Erebus and Terror, Crustacea,'' (1874). 

 In this work twenty-three species of crabs, soldier crabs, and shrimps, 

 are described from New Zealand, Australia, and the South Seas; 

 twenty-two of them are figured. 



* Miers, "Catalogue of New Zealand Crustacea," (3876), three 

 plates. 



