6 Arachn. 
ARACHNIDA. 
Eug£:ne Simon, Bull. Soc. Eut. Fr. (5) x. pp. cxxix. & cxl. gives a list 
of Arachnids (chiefly Araneidea), all of known species, found at Athens, 
Patras, Missolonghi, Santorin and Corfu. 
The Recorder has not seen the following publications and papers 
relating to Arachnida : — 
Hagen, G. Zoologie. Vol. ii. Arthropoden. Vienna : 1881, 8vo, wood- 
cuts. 
Holmbeug, E. L. Aracnidos Argentinos. Anales de Agricultura de 
la Bepublica Argentina, iv. (No. 42) pp. 19. 
. Gdneros y Especies do Ardcnidos Argentinos nuevos 6 poco cono- 
cidos. Ann. Soc. Argent, xi. pp. 125-133. 
Characterizes Stenosterommata, g. n., with 1 sp. n. 
Lucanti, a. Catalogue raissonnee des Arachnides observes jusqu’a 
ce jour dans les Departments du Sud-ouest de la France, d’apres E. 
Simon. Bordeaux. 
ARANEIDEA. 
Anthony, John. On the Threads of Spiders’ Webs. J. R. Micr. Soc. 
(2) ii. p. 170, 1882. 
An attempt to count the primary (or, as the author calls them, 
“ultimate”) threads of silk issued by Epeira diadema^hnt with appa- 
rently no very satisfactory result. So far as arrived at the number 
forming an ordinary thread always came below 200. 
Beiitkau, P. Vorlaufigo Mittheilung iibor den Bau und die function 
der sogenannten Leber bei Spinnen. Zool. Anz. iv. pp. 543 & 544. 
A short description of the glands in Spiders supposed to act as the 
liver in Vertebrates. 
Cambridge, O. P. On some Spiders from Newfoundland. P. Phys. 
Soc. Edinb. vi. pp. 112-115, pi. iii. 
Records 3 species of Epeiridce, 1 new. 
. On some new Genera and Species of Araneidea. P. Z. S. 1881, 
pp. 765-775, pi. Ixvi. 
Describes six spp. nn. of Araneidea belonging to four widely-separated 
families — Theridiidce, Gasteracanthidoi, Aphantochilidce, and Ferissoblem- 
m[at]idai^ and characterizes four new genera. 
Collett, R. Oversigt af Norges Araneider. ii. Laterigradce^ Orhite- 
larice. Forh. Selsk. Chr. 1876, No. 2, pp. 1-27 [1877J. [Omitted 
from former Records]. 
Contains a catalogue of 24 species of Laterigradce^ and 10 of Orhite- 
larice^ 1 species of the former {Xysticus) new. 
