THE GENUS OONOPS (ARANEAE, OONOPIDAE) 
IN PANAMA AND 
THE WEST INDIES. PART 2 
By Arthur M. Chickering 
Museum of 'Comparative Zoology 
This is the seventh paper in the series planned for publication on 
the various genera in the Family Oonopidae in Central America 
and the West Indies. It is the second paper on the genus Oonops 
and deals with this genus as it is now known in the Bahama Islands 
and the Virgin Islands, both British and American. 
Attention is called to the preface of Part 1 on the genus 
Oonops . In that paper I have treated the species at present 
known from Panama, Costa Rica, Trinidad, W. I. and Curasao, 
Netherlands Antilles. And I have also given a resume of the fea- 
tures of the genus as now understood from the study of collections 
from the general region under consideration at present. 
I am endebted to Dr. W. J. Gertsch, formerly Curator of Arach- 
nida in the American Museum of Natural History, and to Dr. J. 
A. L. Cooke, now Associate Curator of Arachnida in the same in- 
stitution, for the loan of a very helpful collection of Oonops from 
the Bahama Islands. 
The genus Oonops was not included in the collection of spiders 
from the Virgin Islands studied by Dr. Petrunkevitch (1926). Ac- 
cording to my present view, Telchius placidus Bryant must be placed 
in the genus Oonops but for reasons given later a new name must be 
assigned to it. This now seems to have been the only species recorded 
from the Virgin Islands until the present time. It now seems quite 
clear that the genus is fairly abundant in the Bahama Islands and 
the Virgin Islands, both British and American and probably in 
neighboring islands as well. I have had a rather large collection 
from this region with which to work. As often happens in the study 
of small and fragile specimens difficulties have often arisen to 
plague the investigator. For several months after resuming the study 
of this genus from the region under immediate consideration it seemed 
likely that the recognition of approximately a dozen species would 
be necessary. As the work progressed, however, I became convinced 
that several of these should be combined into two species with a 
rather wide distribution and including some very puzzling variations. 
At the present time, therefore, I can with reasonable certainty only 
recognize the following species from this region: Oonops balanus 
nomen novum; Oonops bermudensis Banks; Oonops castellus sp. 
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