ARACHNIDA. 
BY 
Tfie IIrv. 0. P. OAMBRiDaB, M.A., O.M.Z.S. 
The General Subject. 
Kocii, O. Beitrage zur Kennfcniss der Nassauischen Arachniden. I. Dio 
Familien der Mithraides, Pholcides, Eresides, Dysderides und Myga- 
lides. JB. nass. Ver. xxvii. & xxviii. pp. 185-210. 
The author divides the class Arachnoidea into 6 orders, Aranecc, Arthro- 
gastra, Acarina, Helminthogastra, Ixodea, ^m^Apneusta ; and commences 
an account of tho species found in Nassau by describing those of the 
groups mentioned in the title, reserving the 7 other European families 
of C. L. Koch’s system for further notice. Twelve species (3 new) are 
now discussed. 
Simon, Euo^ne. Les Arachuides de France, i. pp. 1-272, pis. i.-iii. 
Paris: 1874. 
This work is intended to embrace other orders of Arachnids besides 
the Arancidea. 
-. Etudes Arachnologiques, v. & vi. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr, (5) iv. 
pp. 243-282, pi. V. 
Part V. comprises a revision of the European species of the Spara- 
ssides ; Part vi., a description of a new species of Scorpionides (Buthus). 
Galicia. Papers on the Arachnida, mostly of local interest, by the 
following writers, are published in the “ Sprawozdanie Komisyi Fizyo- 
graficznej ” of the Cracow Academy : — vol. ii. (1868), M. Nowicki, p. (90), 
and L. Wajgiel, pp. (153)-(155) ; iv. (1870), M. Nowicki, pp. (15)-(19); 
vi. (1872), lachno, pp. (4)-(6) ; viii. (1874) M. Nowicki, pp. (l)-(ll). 
Leopold Wajgiel’s “Die Galizischen Arachniden” (written in Polish), 
Kolomea, Galizia, containing 266 species, has not been seen by the 
Recorder [c/. Das Ausland, xvii. p. 240]. 
ARANEIDEA. 
Blackwall, John. A concise notice of observations on certain pecu- 
liarities in the structure and function of the Araneidea. Ann. N. H. 
(4) xiii. pp. 340 & 341. 
Contains some observations on the calamistra of certain Spiders, and 
