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ARACHNIDA. 
of Araneidea are recorded and described in this paper ; of the Araneidea 
36 are described as new. Nearly ail the new as well as several of the 
known species are figured. 
Kramer, P. Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte der Hydrachniden. Arch, 
f. Nat. xli. i. pp. 263-332, pis. viii. & ix. 
A bare outline only of the scope of this valuable paper can be given. 
Under the head of Anatomy, the skin, the mouth-parts and limbs, the 
organs of digestion, the breathing apparatus, the nervous system, and 
the generative organs are all separately treated. Next follow analytical 
tables of genera and species. The family Hydrachnides is divided into 
7 genera, comprising 27 species ; 2 of the former and 20 of the latter are 
given as new to science. 
Kronenberg, a. In A. Fedchenko’s Puteshestvie v Turkestan [Travels 
in Turkestan] ; zoogeographicheskia Izledovania, Arachnida, pp. 
1-58, pis. i.-v. St. Petersburg and Moscow : 1875, 4to [Nachr. Ges. 
. Mosc. ; cf. Zool. Rec. xi. p. 260]. 
This paper is written in Russian, the diagnoses of new species in 
Latin. 146 species of 67 genera are recorded, 46 of the former being 
described as new. The plates are excellent, and give figures of nearly 
aU the new species. 
Lebert, H. liber den Werth und die Bereitung des Chitinskeletes 
der Arachniden fiir mikroscopische Studien. SB. Ak. Wien, Ixix. 
[1874] pt. i. pp. 605-656, pis. i.-iii. figs. 1-33. 
Discusses the mode of preparing various structural features, male 
palpal organs, &c.; for microscopic examination, and the value of those 
features in classification. The species referred to are — Araneidea ; 
Philc&ca dornestica, C. L. Koch, Tegenaria civilis, Walck., Bathyphantes 
brevipalpus, Menge, Linyphia triangularis, Clk., Epeira cornuta, Clk., 
Pholcus phalangioides, Fuess., Sparassus ornatus, Westr. : Phalangidea; 
Cerastoma cornutum, Linn. : Pseudo-Scorpiones ; Obisium muscorum 
(0. L. Koch) : and Acaridea ; Campognatha foreli, a new genus and 
species. 
. Verzeichniss Schlesischer Spinnen, mit Auf zahlung der schlesischen 
Myriapoden. Tubingen : 1876. 
[Not seen by the Recorder.] 
Lucas, H. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. p. cxxxii. 
Gives a list of Arachnids (all known species) from the neighbourhood 
of Chambourcy, Paris. Araneidea, 31 species ; Phalangidea, 5 j Aca- 
ridea, 1. ■ 
Melliss, J. C. Arachnida, in “ St. Helena,” &c. London: 1875, large 
8vo, pp. 206-218. 
The species found in the island are briefly discussed. They have been 
already described by the Recorder in P. Z. S. 1869 & 1873. Pasithea 
pulchra, Blackw., is figured, pi. xxiii. fig. 6. 
