AEACHNIDA. 



I— CATALOGUES. 

 No catalogue of the North AmericaD forms has so far been published. 



II.~COMPBEHENSIVE WORKS. 



C. W. Hahn and C. L. Koch.— Die Arachniden. Mirnberg, 1831-'48, 

 16 vols, with 563 pi. 



H. Lucas. — Descriptions et figures d'espfeces nouvelles d'Arachnides. 

 Paris, 1835-'36. 



C. A. DB Walokbnaer. — Histoire naturelle des Insectes (Suites h Buf- 

 fon). Aptferes. Paris, Eoret, 1837-'47, 4 vols., with 52 pi. 



The first work ou general classification of this order, and many North Amer- 

 ican species are described from drawings by Bosc and Abbot. 



K M. Hentz. — ^Descriptions and figures of the Araneides of the United 

 States. <Journ. Boston Soc: Nat. Hist., Vol. IV- VI, 1842-'50. 

 These papers form the basis of the study of American araohnology. Numerous 

 species are described, bu t not in synoptic form. 



T. Thoeell. — On European Spiders. Part I. Review of the European 

 genera of Spiders. TJpsala, 1869-'70. 



IS. M. Hentz. — Aranese Americse septentrionalis. The Spiders of the 

 United States. Edited by J. H. Einerton and E. Burgess. <" Oc- 

 casional Papers" of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1875. 

 A reprint of Hentz's papers on North American spiders. 



Geaf Etjgen Ketseeling.— Amerikanische Spinnen aus den Fami- 

 lien Pholcoidse, Scytodoidse und Dysderoidse. <Verh. k. k. zool.- 

 bot. Ges. in Wien, Vol. XXVII, 1877, pp. 205-234. 



Graf Eugen Keyseeling. — ^Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. (Six 

 parts.) <Verh. k. k. Zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, Vols. XXIX- 

 XXXIV, 1879-'84. 



E. Simon.— Les Arachnides de France. Paris, Vols. I-V, 1874-'84. 



These two works represent the most recent systems of classification, and are 

 therefore of great general value, although they deal only with the Euro- 

 pean fauna. 



Ltjcien M. Undbewood. — The Progress of Arachnology in America. 

 < Amer. Natur., Vol. XXI, 1887, pp. 963-975. 



A very useful review of the bibliography, with synoptic table of the families 

 of the Araneae. 



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