Ll'TZ. LhST OF GREATER ANTILLEAN SPIDER.S m 



World. In other words, ^3.5 per cent, are strictly American. Of these, 

 one, Alcimosphenus, is known from Greater Antilles but not from the 

 continent, 33 are known from South America, 21 are known from C*en- 

 tral America, 1-i are known from United States. 



There are 59 genera which are kno^m in America outside of the Lesser 

 Antilles and are also knoTvm from the Old World. One of these, Dry- 

 musa, is known only from St. Vincent and Mona in the New World. In 

 the Old World it is known only from Cape of Good Hope, one species 

 being found in each hemisphere. Of the other 58, 56 (17) are known 

 from South America, AA (6) are known from Central America, 1:1 (4) 

 are known from United States. Leaving out of account cosmopolitan or 

 at least cosmotropical genera and those which are distributed. pretty gen- 

 erally throughout the American-mainland, we have the numbers shown in 

 parentheses. Let us now examine the distribution of these more in detail. 



One of them, Theonce, has one species in St. Vincent, one in Missouri, 

 and the genus is represented also in France and Sumatra. Hahnm has 

 several species from Virginia and Wyoming northward to Greenland, two 

 in Patagonia and Terra del Fuego and one in St. Vincent and Porto 

 Eico. It is unknown from the middle of the western mainland. In the 

 eastern hemisphere it has been found in Europe, in the mountains of 

 India, in Japan and Sumatra. Bolostromiis is found in Alabama (one 

 species), northwestern South America (four species), St. Vincent (one 

 species) and southwestern Africa. Oxyopeidon has six species in Central 

 America and Mexico, one of them reaching to Arizona, one species in 

 St. Vincent and Mona, and in the Old World it is found in tropical east 

 Africa, India and Indo-China. 



One genus found in Central xVmerica has Just been considered. The 

 remaining five are found in both Central and South America but are not 

 known from L^nited States. One, Beata, is known only from this section 

 of tropical American mainland, St. Thomas, St. Vincent and Africa. 

 The details of the distribution of Miagrammopes, Dysderina, Artema and 

 Stephanopis may be had by consulting the taxonomic part of this paper. 

 One is found in the Mediterranean region, three in Africa, three in Mada- 

 gascar, two in continental Asia, one in the Philippines, two in Malasia, 

 one in Melanesia, two in Polynesia and two in Australia. 



Seven of the genera under discussion which are found in South Amer- 

 ica have been mentioned. The following ten are not known from the 

 American mainland north of Panama and, with the exception of Opopcea, 

 which we found on Desecheo, not even from any of the Antilles except 

 St. Vincent: Accola, Theotima, Oonops, Opopcea, Janulus, Episinopsis, 

 Dyschiriognatha, Ogulnius, Anapis, Caloctenus. One is found in Europe, 



