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central parts of the island in places where the "soil is not exposed to the 

 effects of the extremes of heat and moisture'^ (Sells).. 



BARYGHELIN^ 



Stothis. Petriinkevitch lists two species from Venezuela and one 

 from St. Vincent but he overlooked cubana Banks from f Santiago de las 

 Vegas, Cuba. 



Trichopelma has two species in Brazil and one, niiidum Simon, con- 

 fined to Santo Domingo. 



The two genera jnst mentioned belong to a section of the Barvchelinte 

 which are tropical American except for a genns from the Mediterranean 

 legion and eastern Africa. 



ATICULARIIX^ 



Ischnocolus has, according to Petriinkevitch, no rej^resentative in 

 America. I. liirsutus Ausserer, recorded from f Cuba and the Bahamas, 

 is believed by him to be a young Lasiodora. Banks records tlie genus 

 from 2,800 feet altitude on El Yimque, Porto Eico. 



Stichoplastus has one species recorded from each of the following: 

 A'enezuela, Trinidad and Guatemala. Professor Wheeler took a speci- 

 men, as yet imidentified, in Culebra Island, Porto Rico. 



Hapalopinus has only one species, cuhanus Simon, and it is confined 

 to Cuba. 



Scopelobates sericeus Simon is the only species of its genus and is 

 known only from its type locality, Puerto-Plata, Haiti. 



Cyrtopholis has one species in Alexico, two in South America, one in 

 the Bahamas, and three in the northern Lesser Antilles. In addition, 

 agilis Pocock and cursor (Ausserer) have been recorded from Santo 

 Domingo; innocuus (Ausserer) from f Havana, Cuba; and jamaicola 

 Strand from Montego Bay, Jamaica. It belongs to a group which is 

 entirely American, as far as is known. 



Eurypelma. To this American genus belong the large tarantulas — 

 the creatures which are usually thought of when the latter name is used. 

 Only one species has been recorded from the West Indies. It is spinicrus 

 (Latreille) from Cuba and is fairly common there. Banks states that 

 he has seen an immature Eurypelma from Cayamas, Cuba, which repre- 

 sents another species but was unable to place it. The other thirty species 

 are found chiefly from southwestern United States to northwestern South 

 America. 



Avicularia is largely confined to South America, there being one 

 species reported as confined to California, one to Panama, three to the 



