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cerned. the Porto Eican fauna is as closely related to the Lesser Antillean 

 as it is to that of the other Greater Antilles. This conclusion is strength- 

 ened by remembering that St. Vincent, an island well down in the string 

 of Lesser Antilles, furnished almost all the data for that group of islands. 



HiSPANIOLA 



Although some of the records for this island are credited to the Haitian 

 portion of it through the unfortunate use of * 'Haiti'" for the whole island, 

 nevertheless most of them really came from Haiti, especially near Port 

 au Prince, being those of Banks's list. It seems best to consider the 

 island as a whole until we know more about the differences between the 

 parts. 



There are only 52 genera known from Hispaniola. This, clearly, is 

 but a small part of its f aima, and since the more interesting genera, those 

 of restricted range, are probably most abundant in the almost totally 

 unstudied mountains, it is possibly not a fair sample. However, 9 genera, 

 01 17.3 per cent., are not known elsewhere in the Antilles and 2 (Scope- 

 lohates and Bytlwcroius), or 3.8 per cent., are peculiar to the island. 

 Tricliopelma is known elsewhere only from South America: Tobias only 

 from Central America and northern South America: Acacesia only from 

 southern Lnited States to Panama (a single species throughout) : Jleta- 

 cyrha, the same distribution except that it is also found in Buen Ayre, 

 off the northern coast of South America ; Icius, especially in L^nited 

 States (as far as American records go), Mexico, Uruguay, Europe, Africa 

 and Asia: Linyphia and Cyrtoplwra. practicalh^ cosmopolitan but not 

 recorded from the other Antilles. 



Again leaving out Prostliedlna. we find 24, or 4T.1 per cent., of the 

 remaining 51 are strictly American (including ^\ala and Euticliurus, 

 which are known from Bermuda). Of these Alrimosphenus is known 

 from St. Vincent, Cuba and Jamaica, and Xikuaniha from Jamaica, but 

 neither from the continent. These, with the two peculiar genera, leave 

 20 whicli are distributed as follows: 16 are known from South America, 

 IT are known from Central America, 11 are known from United States. 



There are 2T Hispaniolan genera known elsewhere in America and 

 also in the Old AVorld. All are found in continental America and as 

 follows: 27 (2) are known from South America. 25 (1) are known from 

 Central America, 24 (1) are known from I"^nited States. 



As before, the numbers in parentheses refer to genera of more restricted 

 range. As a matter of fact only two are concerned : Miagraramopes, 

 known from all the Greater Antilles except Jamaica, from St. Vincent, 

 Brazil to Mexico, Africa, Madasrascar, southern Asia and Australia : and 



