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Oxyopeidon is found in tropical east Africa, India, Indo-China and 

 America. With us it seems to be confined to Mexico and Central America 

 (six species) except for rana Simon, which has been known only from St. 

 Vincent. We found this species fairly abmidant on low vegetation on 

 Mona. 



Oxyopes is a nearly cosmo-tropical genus wliieh extends into more 

 temperate regions. In America it is best developed in Mexico and Cen- 

 tral America, where there are numerous species. 0. paUidus (C. Koch) 

 was described from the West Indies, but the only definite locality record 

 seems to be in Walcken^er's description of a male from Cuba. 0. salticus 

 Hentz is known from Xew York to +Alabama. Kansas, California and 

 south to Bolivia, also in Bermuda, all the Greater Antilles and St. Vin- 

 cent. It seems to be common throughout Cuba. We found it on Mona 

 and near San Juan, Porto Rico. In Porto Rico it is also reported from 

 El Yunque and Culebra. 



Peucetia is also found throughout most of the tropical and subtropical 

 regions of the world. P. poeiji (Lucas) is knoT\Ti only from Cuba, but 

 virldans (Hentz) is distributed in America from fXorth Carolina to Cali- 

 fornia and south to Costa Rica. It is recorded from Cuba (Santiago de 

 las Vegas and Cayamas), Haiti and Jamaica. We have it from Kings- 

 ton, Jamaica; Guane, Banos San Vincente, Oriente and Guantanamo in 

 Cuba; and Mayaguez, Porto Rico. " It has, apparently, not been found ni 

 the Lesser Antilles. 



Salttcid.e 



The '•jumping spiders'' make no snare but run about freelv on the 

 ground and on the vegetation in pursuit of their prey. The fauiily is 

 a large one and contains many species still to be described, while the 

 taxonomy of the known forms is in a far from satisfactory shape. Our 

 own West Indian collection was in the hands of Mr. Peckham and only 

 partly worked up when he died. The following records, therefore, do 

 not entirely cover the material which we have on hand, 



Agobardus anormalis Keyserling is the only sjieeies in its uenus. 

 I'he type specimens are labeled I'. S., but Petrunkevitch, following 

 Peckham and Banks, states that it is probably from the AVest Indies. 



Bythocrotus cephalotes (Simon) is not only the only species of the 

 genus but the genus is the only one in Bythocrotea?, one of Simon's 

 divisions of the SalticidcT. It is not known outside of Haiti. 



Compsodecta is an American genus with one species in Guatemala 

 and two. namely, alhopalpis (Peckham) and grisea (Peckham), in 

 Jamaica. The srenus belongs to Simon's group Pensacoleiv which con- 



