6 Arachn. 
ARACHNIDA. 
according to the number of which Scorpions had previously been 
arranged by all authors, excepting Gervais. Thorell attaches less im- 
portance to the denticulation of the falces, but finds a better character 
for distinguishing “ families ” in the form of the pectoral combs, the 
structure of which he minutely describes. For subfamilies and genera, 
the characters relied upon by Peters and others are used, as well as 
some taken from the denticulation of the “ palp-fingers ’’ [digital joints 
of the palpi]. The families established are four in number, and eleven 
new genera are characterized. 
Wajgla, Leopolda. Pajeczaki Galicyjske (Arachnoidea Haliciae). 
Kolomea : 1874, pp. 1-36. 
A list of 257 known species of Galician Arachnids. 232 are of the 
order Araneidea and 25 of the order Phalangidea. The Recorder is 
unable to give any further account of this paper, excepting that the 
families and genera are all briefly characterized. The Araneidea are 
comprised in 48 genera, belonging to 9 families ; the Phalangidea form 
one family, divided into 8 genera. 
Woodward, H. On the Discovery of a Fossil Scorpion in the British 
Coal Measures. J. G. Soc. xxxii. pp. 57-59, pi. viii. 
Besides the scorpion referred to in the title of this paper, two others 
are figured and referred to. A list is also given, 1. c. p. 63, of all the 
Arachnids yet known to have been discovered in the Coal Measures. 
These are Scorpjonidea : Scorpiones, 5 species, belonging to 4 genera ; 
Pseudo-scoipiones, 3 species, belonging to 2 genera. Araneidea, 3 
species, belonging to 3 genera. 
Wright, E. PERGEYATi. Notes of a Tour in the Spring and Summer 
of 1868 to Sicily and Portugal. P. Soc. Dubl. v. pp. 85-108. 
A list of 67 species of various families of Araneidea (all Sicilian) is 
contained in this paper, pp. 85-89, pis. vi. & vii. [The new species have 
been described by Blackwall, in J, L. S, x. pp. 405-434, pis. xv. & xvi.] 
H. Lucas, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vi, p. clxi., adds 12 to his list of 
species found near Paris [^ool. Bee. xii. p. 240]. 
A large spider observed to drop 10 or 15 feet from a tree on to a 
minnow swimming on the surface of a spring in Alabama. The spider 
bit this fish on tfie back of the neck, and adhered to it till it died (com- 
municated by the Smithsonian Institution). T. M. Peters, Am. Nat. x. 
p. 688. 
ARANEIDEA. 
Theraphosides. 
B. Gillies, Tr. N. Z. Insr. viii, pp, 222-262, pis, vi.-viii., gives a- 
long and interesting account of the nests of trap-door spiders found 
