1 he present paper contains an account of that portion of the Araneae collected by Dr. L. Schultze 
in South Africa, which falls into the families given in the following list, the numbers in the list being the 
total number of examples collected of each family and the number of species identified or described in 
this paper: 
Fam. Aviculariidae 
Dictynidae 
Eresidae 
Sicariidae 
Dysderidae 
Caponiidae 
Prodidomidae 
Drassidae 
66 examples 
14 
IOS7 1 ) » 
46 
M4 
26 
1 example 
557 examples 
11 species (10 new) 
3 
, ( 1 
» ) 
10 , 
, (6 
.. ) 
7 
, ( 4 
» ) 
6 
( 4 
» ) 
1 , 
1 , 
27 
, (21 
., ) 
Totais: 191 1 examples 
66 species (46 new) 
Dr. Schultze is to be congratulated on the large number of specimens obtained by him. The most 
extensive collections were made in Little Namaqualand, but a considerable number of specimens were also 
obtained in Great Namaqualand (including Possession Island) and in the Kalahari (in the Bechuanaland 
Protectorate), while a small number came from Southern Hereroland (S. Damaraland) and from the Cape 
Peninsula. With the exception of the last, all these localities represent practically new fields for the collector 
of Araneae, for, so far as I am aware, no extensive collections have ever been made in any of them before, 
and only a few odd species have been recorded from time to time. Accordingly more than two-thirds of 
the total number of species described or identified in this paper are new to science, although the genera 
to which they belong are in all cases identical with those of the other and better known dry portions of 
the interior of Cape Colony. 
If the gregarious Eresidae (Stegodyphus) be excluded from the above list, it will be seen that the 
Drassidae are by far the most numerous both in individuals and species, being followed in number by 
the non-gregarious Eresidae and the Dysderidae. But it must be borne in mind that the Underground 
I) Of these 834 are gregarious and 223 not gregarious. 
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