6 Arachn. 
ARAOHNIDA. 
glands in the maxillae of Tegenaria domestica, Bl. [T. ^w?/oni,Gu4r.], sup- 
posed to be salivary, and varying in number, 13-80, according to age 
and development. 
J. H. Payne, in a note on a “Tarantula” (P. Z. S. 1880, p. 421), states 
that a mare died from the bite of a Spider at Cape Town, allied (on the 
authority of 0. P. Cambridge) to Tegenaria guyoni, Gu4r. 
F. M. Campbell (Tr. Hertford. Soc. i. pp. 37-48), in “ General 
Observations on Spiders,” divides them into those (i.) on systematic 
arrangement, (ii.) general anatomical structure, (hi.) life-history, (iv.) 
senses, (v.) habits, (vi.) general remarks. 
G. Hind (J. Quek. Club, v. pp. 10 & 11) gives a method for 
collecting and mounting Spiders’ webs for the microscope, and offers an 
explanation [which can scarcely be accepted as sufficient] of the produc- 
tion of the viscid beads on the lines of Epeirid snares. J. Fenner, in 
reference to G. Hind’s paper, gives another method which he thinks is 
. more effective ; English Mechanic, xxxi. p. 135. 
M. MacLeod, Bull. Ac. Belg. (2) 1. pp. 110-113, writes on the “ Poison- 
organs ” of Spiders, chiefly in respect to their structural characters, and 
refers to Epeira diademata, Agelena lahyrinthica, and Tegenaria domestica. 
T. Workman (P. Belfast Soc. April, 1880, pp. 1-16, with 1 plate), 
in a paper on “ Irish Spiders,” gives a short conspectus of the 
families and genera, in which are comprised the species (112) contained 
in the subsequent list. More than half are included in the family llieri- 
diidce. 
Salensky. — F. M. Balfour, in “ Studies from the Morphological 
Laboratory in the University of Cambridge ” (1880), p. 106, refers to an 
important paper (written in Russian by this author, on the “ Develop- 
ment of the Araneina”) published in 1871, by the Kiew Society of 
Naturalists, and abstracted in JB. Anat. Physiol. 1878. The author 
confirms Balfour’s account of the development of the heart, and describes 
the final stages of the provisional abdominal appendages (not observed 
by Balfour), the 3rd and 4th pairs of which he believes to become the 
spinners, while the anterior are developed into the breathing organs. 
Eugene Simon, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. [1879] pp. xxxvi. & xxxvii., 
gives a list of 13 species of Araneidea found near Constantinople, 1 
(Epeirid) new, {op. cit. x. p. xxi.) from the environs of Paris, 10 known 
species of Araneidea, of which all, excepting 1, had hitherto been found 
only in the Mediterranean region. 
J. H. Emerton (Am. Nat. xiv. p. 595, 1 fig., woodcut) describes the 
copulation of a male and female Xysticiis (unnamed). 
Eugene Simon, “ Revision de la Famille des Sparassidce,'* Act. Soc. 
L. Bord. xxxiv. pp. 223-351, revises his family Sparassidce [which 
is included, infra, in family Thomisidce]. It comprises Selenops^ 
Delena, Sparassus, Olios, and Clastes, Walck., and various other allied 
genera since established by other authors : as Plator, E. Simon, Hemicloea 
and Holconia {Voconia), Thor., Zachria, Prychia, Isopeda, and Palystes, 
L. Koch, Heteropoda, Latr., Pelmopoda, Karsch, Pandercetes, L. Koch, 
Micrommata, Latr., Sarotes, Sund., Cebrennus {Cebrenis), E. Sim , Theme- 
ropis, L. Koch. 16 new genera and 41 new species are here characterized. 
