LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, ARANEIDEA. Araclin. 7 
to show the untenability of the suborders of Araneidea {Orhitelarice 
lietitelariee, &c.) established by Thorell.] 
Becker, L c. pp, clxxvii.-clxxxv., details the enemies of Spiders and 
the dangers to be encountered by them, with their methods of defence ; 
also the provision made for the perpetuation of the species by fecundity, 
as well as the means used to check their too rapid increase. He also, 
1. c. pp. cliii.-clix., cites instances of maternal care in Spiders, from the 
DictynidcE, Theridiidce, Epeiridce, Lycosidce, and Thomisidce^ and gives, in 
a popular way, many interesting details of habits. 
E. Simon, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. pp. Iviii. & lix., gives a list of 102 
species of Spiders found by M. A. Engel in the island of Ischia, being 17 
more than those found previously in the island of Capri by P. Pavesi ; 
at p. Ixxi. he corrects errors in lists of Spiders published (Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. 1878, pp. 48 & 191) by H. Lucas ; and (p. Ixxii.) adds 13 species of 
Spiders to the Turkish list in Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1875, p. cxcvi. 
F. Karsch, MT. Miinch. ent. Ver. ii. p. 95, remarks critically on T. 
Thorell’s “ European Spiders.” 
R. McLachlan, in his Report (J. L. S. xiv.) on the Insecta, &c., col- 
lected during Nares’s Arctic Expedition [Zool. Rec. xv. Ins. p. 7] gives 
an account of the Arachiida (pp. 120-122), taken from a paper by the 
Recorder [Zool. Rec. xiv. Arachn. p. 3]. 
0. H. Robson (Tr. N. Z. Inst. x. pp. 299 & 300, with woodcnt) 
records the discovery of a marine Spider, with its nest in a Lithodomus- 
hole below high-water mark, at Cape Campbell. Its food is unknown, 
but in confinement (in a bottle of water) it attacked and killed at once 
a small fish placed with it. Hector adds a note {1. c. p. 300), and con- 
cludes that the Spider is an Argyroneta^ which he names marina. [Pro- 
bably it belongs to an undescribed genus of i\\% Agelenidm.] 
ARANEIDEA.. 
Li^nard, Val^re. Recherches sur la structure de I’appareil digestif 
des Mygales et des Nephiles. Bull. Ac. Belg. (2) xlvi. pp. 698-708, 
pi. 
Refers to works of F. Plateau, E. Blanchard, and A. Weissmann, and 
differs from some of the conclusions of the two former. The spiders 
examined are Mygale javanensis and Nephila chrysogaster, Walck. 
Theraphosid^. 
R. CiLLiES (Tr. N. Z. Inst. x. pp. 301-306, pi. xiii.) describes several 
Trap-Door Spiders’ nests from California and Western Australia, in the 
Christchurch Museum. Those from California are furnished with a 
“ cork-lid ” on a level with the surface of the ground, while those from 
Australia project above the surface, and their lids are of the “ wafer ” 
type. [This is evident from the general description and figures, but the 
author thinks not, because the lids are thicker than those of the typical 
(European) “wafer-lids.’’ They preserve, however, the essential feature 
