4 Arachn. 
ARACHNIDA. 
Simon, Eugene. Descriptions d’Arachnides nouveaux d’Afuique. Bull. 
Soc. Z. Fr. 1881, pp. 1-11. 
Describes and records 18 species (15 new) of various families of 
Araneidea^ and characterizes a new genus of Thoinisidce (^Runciniopsis), 
. Arachnides nouveaux ou rares de la faune frau9aise. L. c. 
pp. 82-91. 
Contains notices and descriptions of 5 species of Araneidea (2 new), 
9 spp. of Phcdangiidea (5 new), and 1 sp. n. of Pseudoscorpiones. 
. Arachnides nouveaux ou peu connues des Provinces Basques. An. 
Soc. Esp. X. pp. 127-152. 
Describes and records a now genus and species of Araneidea and G 
species (5 now) of Phalangiidea. 
. Les Arachnides do Franco. Vol. v. Pt. 1, pp. 1-179, pi. xxv. 
In continuation of the work [cf. Zool. Rec. xvi. Arachn. p. 5], contain- 
ing (pp. 1-12) a supplement on the family EpeiridxB (cf. i. p. 17) and a 
portion of the family Theridiidce. 21 genera are characterized, 2 being 
new, and 84 species, 11 new. 
Thorell, T. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. Part iii. Ragni 
deir Austro-Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo Civico 
di Storia Naturale di Genova. Ann. Mus. Genov, xvii. pp. vii.-xxvii. 
& 1-720. 
The introduction gives an account of the Spiders already described 
from these regions ; the total, including those here recorded as new, 
being 505: Orhitelarice 162, Retitelarue 38, Tuhitelarice 31, Territelarice 
10, Laterigradce 84, Citigradee 20, Saltigradce 151. These are divided, in 
respect to locality, as follows : — Moluccas 164, New Guinea 180, Islands 
of Timor 11, Aru 36, Key 3, and of Torres’ Straits 12, Cape York 104. 
The new species described are 173, and 16 new genera are characterized. 
A table ol: species observed till now in the island of Celol)es, Austro- 
Malaysia, and Cape York is given, pp. 683-711, showing the localities in 
which each was found. 
L:^on Becker, in “ Communications Arachnologiques,” C. R. Ent. 
Belg. xxiii. p. clxxxi., gives a list of Arachnids, chiefly Araneidea, and all 
of known species, found in Belgium by several collectors ; also, p. clxxxii., 
a list from Italy found by M. Foettinger ; another from Germany 
(Friedrichroda) found by M. de Borre, p. clxiii. ; and others from Eise- 
nach and Potsdam, ibid . ; also others from Berlin, Schneeberg (Saxony), 
and Inselberg, p. clxxxiv. : to these communications remarks are added on 
the utility of such lists as contributions towards a knowledge of the 
geographical distribution of Arachnids. 
The same author, /. c. pp. clxxxviii. & clxxxix., gives a list of known 
species of Araneidea and Phalangiidea captured at Nuremberg, and 
Linyphia cristata, Menge, new to Belgium. 
Becker also, op. cit. xxv., gives the following lists, &c. : — 
Pp. xxvi.-xxxiv., lists of Arachnids from Mentone (known Araneideat 
