658 Zoology. 



Hist." a catalogue of the described species, indicating by the 

 letters "B. M." those that were represented in the Museum, and 

 described eight new forms. 



In 1894 the identification of the collection was again taken 

 in hand by Mr. R. I. Pocock, who prepared a MS. catalogue of 

 the described species, entering in it under their specific headings, 

 the specimens in the National Collection. The fairly extensive 

 material that has come to hand since 1894 has been identified, 

 and, in the case of new species, described. The series of Indian 

 and Burmese specimens, including the types of his own species, 

 that was presented by Mr. E. W. Oates in 1897, made a valuable 

 addition to the National Collection. 



The Schizonotidse are represented in the Museum by one 

 specimen only, namely, the type of Trithyreus suboculatus. 



The material of Pedipalpi of the group Amblypygi (Phrynidse) 

 contained in the British Museum became of historical importance 

 in 1844, when an account of it, containing descriptions of three 

 new species, was published by Gervais in the third volume of his 

 « Hist. Nat. Ins. Apteres." In 1873, Mr. A. G. Butler worked 

 through the collection, and published the results in the " Annals 

 and Magazine of Nat. Hist." for that year. Some new species 

 were described, and the species identified by the author as repre- 

 sented in the British Museum were indicated by the letters "B. M." 

 A second paper upon the collection was published by Mr. Butler 

 in 1879. 



In 1894, the collection was again catalogued by Mr. R. I. 

 Pocock, who drew up a MS. list of all the described species of 

 the sub-order, entering in it under their proper generic and specific 

 headings the specimens preserved in the Museum. The accessions 

 since 1894 have been similarly named and catalogued. 



Order ARANE^. 



Before 1890 very little attention had been paid to the col- 

 lection of Spiders. A few species only had been named by G. R. 

 Gray, Adam White, A. G. Butler, and the Rev. O. P. Cambridge ; 

 the dried specimens had been roughly arranged under their generic 

 and family headings ; but the material in the spirit-house was for 

 the most part unnamed and unsorted. In 1890 Mr. Pocock started 

 to work out the species of the group Mygalomorphse, adopting 

 the method of cataloguing already pursued in the case of the 



