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to Guiana ) . two to Madagascar, one to India and Ceylon, one to the 

 Philippines, and one is fonnd in western Africa, ^fadagascar. the Sey- 

 chelles, Ceylon. Burma and Indo-China. The group is evidently an an- 

 cient one. We hare an nndetermined specimen of Lijssomanes from Porto 

 Pico. L. oniiUanus Peckham is known from both parts of Hispaniola 

 and we have it from Jamaica (Lapland). L. viridis (Walckeneer). the 

 most northern species of the genns, is known from + southern ITnited 

 States, Central America. Haiti and (by letter from Mr. Banks ) Havana, 

 Cuba. 



Marpissa occurs in Europe. Asia including Japan, and America. On 

 the occidental mainland it ranges from northern United States to Brazil 

 but the only Antillean record is incerta Koch from St. Thomas. 



Menemems bivittatus (Dufour) ^ melanof/nafha (Lucas) is almost 

 cosmopolitan if the synonymy of Peckham and Petrunkevitch be ac- 

 cepted. Its only Antillean record, however, seems to be Santiago de las 

 Vegas. Cuba. We have it from about plantation buildings at Cabanas, 

 Cuba and also from Culebra. 



Metacyrba is considered by Simon, but not by Petrunkevitch. to be a 

 synonATn oi Fuentes. In any case it is solely American, and it belongs 

 to a group. ^Iievivcie, which is known only from America. The only 

 Antillean species is piciipes Banks from Haiti. 



M5n:marachne is practically cosmopolitan. 37. melanocephahis Mac- 

 Leay is said by Lucas to be from Cuba and Petrunkevitch so records it 

 without further comment, but the original description says it '*is a native 

 of Bengal and I present a figure of it. made by my friend Air. C. Curtis, 

 in order to show the relation which it bears to the American subgenus, 

 c&lled ^Ii/rmecium by Latreille." M, paraJJelus (Fabricius) has only the 

 unsatisfactory record of "i- Antilles.*' 



Nilacantha cockerelli Peckham is the only species of its genus. It is 

 found in Jamaica and Haiti. The Thiodinte. to which it belongs, is an 

 American group, 



Peckhamia has bur four species. It ranges, on the mainland, from 

 Canada to Panama. A related genus, forming with it the group Peck- 

 hamiea^. is nnly known from Brazil. There are no records from the 

 West Indies except for an immature specimen from Haiti, but Mi. Banks 

 informs me that he has seen a specimen of the United States species, 

 P. picafa (Hentz). from Havana and we took an immature specimen of 

 the genus at Cerro de Cabras near Pinar del Eio, Cuba. 



Pellenes is foimd in Europe and the Alediterranean region, north- 

 eastern Asia and America. In the latter region there are more than 

 fifty species but it is not known south of Central America. There are 



