ARACIINIDA. 
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Gastracnntha {Isacantha) canmngensisj Stoliczlca, I, c, p. 548, pi. 18. fig. 1, 
Port Canning. 
PEDIPALPI. 
ScORPlONIDiE. 
R. Hill (Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. viii. pp. 387-893, and p. 486) pub- 
lishes some notes on the natural history of Scorpions as observed by him in 
Jamaica. 
The occurrence in St. Helena of Lychas maculatus and L. americanus 
(Koch) is recorded by Cambridge, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 543. 
Tityus engmuSf sp. n., Menge, Schriften naturf. Gesellscli. in Danzig, neue 
Folge, ii. p. 1, in amber. 
Buthus grontiif sp. n.. Wood, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. s. xiii. p. 442, 
pi. 24. fig. 4, Zooloo Country. 
Phrynida?. 
Tdyyhonm affsamcnsisf Stoliczlca, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bong, xxxviii. 2. 
p. 205, pi. 19. fig. 1, Assam. 
Phrynus gorgo, Wood, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. s. xiii. p. 440, pi. 24. 
fig. 1, Peruj P. annulatipes, Wood, 1. c. p. 441, pi. 24. fig. 2, Zooloo Country. 
ADELARTHROSOMATA. 
Piialangiidas. 
H. C. Wood (Communications of the Essex Institute, vol. vi. 
pp. 10-40) publishes a synopsis Of the species of this group 
found in the United States. He gives a general aceount of the 
structure and habits of these animals, which he regards as form- 
ing an order of Arachnida (Phalangeai) , divided into the two 
families Phalangida and Gongleptida. The descriptions are 
illustrated by woodcut figures. 
The following known North- American species are described and figured 
by H. C. Wood: — Phalangium dorsatum (Say), 1. c. p. 9; P. vittatum (Say), 
p. llj P. grande (Say), p. 26; P. nigrum (Say), ibid.; Acanthocheir armata 
(Lucas), p. 28 ; and Gonyleptes armatum (Say), p. 28. 
Gagrelltty g. n., Stoliczka, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xxxviii. 2. p. 212. Allied 
to Leiobunum {^= AcanthonotuSj Koch) ; abdomen spined, margins of eyes 
smooth. Sp. G. atrata, Stol. 1. c. p. 213, pi. 18. fig. 2, and pi, 20. fig. 11, 
Calcutta ; G. signata, Stol. 1. c. p. 214, pi. 20. fig. 10, Assam. 
Ortonia, g. n., Wood, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. s. xiii. p. 438. Allied to 
Gonyleptes ; eyes 2, last joint of mandibles renifomi, attached laterally by its 
centre; tarsal joints of second pair of legs very numerous. Sp. O. hilunatay 
sp. n.. Wood, 1. c. p. 438, pi. 24. fig. 3, and O./cmr, sp. n.. Wood, 1. c. p. 439, 
pi. 24. fig. 8, Ecuador. 
Octophthalmus, g. n.. Wood, 1. c. p. 439. Allied to preceding ; eyes four 
on each side of the eye-eminence ; last joint of mandibles attached by its 
end. Sp. O, marginatus, sp. n.. Wood, I, c. p. 440, pi. 24. fig. 7 (Ecuador?). 
