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Bathyphantes is kiio-wn from Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zea- 

 land, as well as from America. Of the forty American species, thirty-one 

 are not recorded south of the United States, four are more southern but 

 not known south of Guatemala, and four are from the extreme southern 

 part of South America. The final one is the recently described semi- 

 cincia Banks, collected by us in a flower garden at Banos San Vincente, 

 near Yiiiales, Cuba. 



Ceratinella is a paltearctic genus which has one species in this hemi- 

 sphere. This species, hrunnea Emerton, is found from Labrador (speci- 

 men in our collection) to Xew York. AYe also have a specimen of the 

 genus, species undetermined, from the pine-palmetto plains south of 

 Pillar del Eio, Cuba. 



Ceratinopsis is an American genus with twenty-three species of whicli 

 eleven are not recorded south of the United States (except, now, see 

 anglicana) ; three from Mexico or Central America; and of the nine 

 South American ones about half are confined to the southern part of that 

 continent, three of them being known only from the region of Tierra del 

 Fuego. We took anglicana (Hentz) by beating oak branches in a dense 

 thicket at about 125 meters elevation on Cerro de Cabras, near Pinar del 

 Rio, Cuba. We also took the genus, species undetermined, in a ravine at 

 an elevation of about 300 meters near Banos San Vincente, Cuba. There 

 are no other records for the genus in the West Indies. 



Linyphia is another genus which extends from the nortliern to the 

 southern extremes of this hemisphere, in fact it is nearly world wide in 

 its distribution, but it is rather better developed in the tropics than some 

 of its relatives. The only AYest Indian species is coccinea Hentz, which 

 is found in f Florida and Haiti. 



Microneta lias a wide distribution, especially in temperate regions. 

 In America there are twenty-one species confined to northern United 

 States and Canada; one to Mexico; one {varia Simon) to St. Vincent; 

 and one to Brazil. If the last two are correctly placed, the genus is 

 likely to be found in the Greater Antilles. 



Argiopid^ 



This large family which includes the true orb-weavers is unsatisfactory 

 material for a study of distribution because of the uncertain limits of 

 some of the genera. Petrunkevitch and others have dodged the issue by 

 putting eighteen of them in the Cohors Araneus, and I can only do like- 

 wise, putting, however, the probable generic name in parentheses. One 

 of the subfamilies (Linyphiin^e) into which Simon divides the Argio- 

 pidae has already been considered, treating it as a family. 



