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Vegas, Cuba; Haiti; Lares and Luquillo, Porto Eico; and St. Vincent. 

 We took it in a hotel at Mayaguez, Porto Eico. 



Leptonetid^. 



Two species of Ocliyrocera and one of Theotima have been found on 

 St. Vincent but no member of this family is reported from the Greater 

 Antilles. It is worth noting that there are only two species in Theoiimo. 

 One is confined to caves in the Philippines (Luzon) and the other is 

 found under vegetable debris in St. Vincent and Venezuela. 



Ooxopiu.T-: 



This rather large family is represented on St. A'incent by fourteen 

 species, nine genera, but there are no records from the Greater Antilles. 

 It is found throughout most of the tropical world and invades the tem- 

 perate regions to some extent. We took a number of unidentified 

 Oonopids at Baiios San Vincente, Cuba, by sifting leaves from the base 

 of the cliffs. Sifting fallen leaves on the steep sides of Desecheo turned 

 up unidentified species of Dysderina and Opopsea and the same method 

 of collecting found Dysderina sp. in a sea-grape thicket at Dorodo, near 

 San Juan, Porto Eico. Both of these genera have been found in St. 

 Vincent, as well as in the wamier parts of the mainland, Africa and Asia, 

 including the Philippines. 



Dysderid.e 



This famiW has four small genera in America of which Ariadna is 

 the largest and the only one known from the West Indies. This genus 

 is recorded from the Mediterranean region, southern Africa, Japan, 

 Sumatra, Australia, Tasmania, Massachusetts to Uruguay including Gala- 

 pagos Islands, and one species from St. Vincent. .4. hicolor (Hentz), 

 which is found in eastern L^nited States from Massachusetts to Alabama, 

 was taken by us at Baiios San Vincente, Cuba. Although this species is 

 largely a "house spider" and, so, liable to accidental dispersal by man, 

 the fact that this Cuban localit}^ is in the interior and not along ordinary 

 lines of travel makes it seem probable that this species is well established 

 in Cuba. A. soUtaria Simon is the species which has been recorded from 

 f St. Vincent. We found it under fallen leaves in a sea-grape thicket on 

 Desecheo. 



Caponiid.1] 



There are only three genera in this family. One genus is represented 

 by a single species in South Africa. The other two are exclusively 



