ARANEIDEA. 
Arachn. 7 
Hasselt, A. W. M. van. Aranca: iu P. J. Vcth’s “ Midden -Sumatra ’’ 
iv. 3dc Aflev. Naturlijke Histone, Part 11a, pp. 1-56, pis. i.-v. 
Leiden : 1882, roy. 8vo. 
The author reviews the work already done by various writers in 
describing and recording Spiders from the Malay Archipelago, and gives 
a systematic list, with short descriptions, of 106 species (28 new), belong- 
ing to different families and genera of Araneidea from Sumatra. The 
new species are figured. 
How Lett, W. P. Clasping organs in Male Spiders and Mites. N. Z. 
J. Sci. i. p. 213. 
The great development of the tibiae and metatarsi of the first pair of 
legs in the male of Macrothele hultoni , Cambr., is supposed to be for the 
purpose of clasping the female. A similar structure was noted in an 
Acarid. This development is supposed not to have been noticed 
before in respect to Spiders and Acarids. [Excessive development of the 
anterior legs of some other Spiders and Acarids is well known, but no 
special function has yet been proved to belong to it.] 
F. Karscii notes a fossil species of Aranecc from Silesia, found in the 
coal formation ; Z. geol. Ges. 1882, p. 556. 
Keyserling, Eugen von. Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. in. Yerh. 
z.-b. Wien, xxxi. pp. 269-314, pi. xi. 
Describes 31 species (all new) from North and South America, of 
Epeiridcc , Uloboridce, Dictynulcc ( A ma urobiinai ) , Agelenidce, Drassidm , 
Dysdcridai , and Thomisidoc ; and characterizes three new genera of Epeiridcc 
and Drassidai. 
Kocii, Ludwig. Die Arachuiden Australiens nach der Natur beschrieben 
und abgebildet. Parts xxix. & xxx. pp. 1325-1372, pis. cxiii.-cxvi. 
Nurnberg : 1882. 
In continuation of the work [cf. Zool. Rec. xviii. Arachn. p. 3]. 
Describes and figures 37 species of Salticidce , 33 being new; 12 new 
genera are characterized. 
Kulczynski, V. Wykaz Pajakow z Tatr, Babiej gory i Karpat 
szlazkich z uwzglednieniem pionowego rozsiedlema Pajakow zyjacych 
w Galicyi zachodniej. Osobne odbicie ze Sprawozd. kom. fizyogr. 
xv. pp. 248-322 [1881]. 
Iu this paper, out of 412 species, about 25 are recorded as new to 
science ; these last are, however, all described and figured subsequently 
as new species in “ Opisy Nowych Gatunkow Pajakow,” &c. (infra). 
. Spinnen aus der Tatra und den westlichen Beskiden. Krakau : 
1882, pp. 1-34. 
"fliis paper is for the most part a reprint in German of the paper last 
quoted ; it refers to Spiders found in the Silesian western Carpathians, 
and recordod by C. Fiekert ( Verzciclmiss der Schlosischen Spinnen, Z. E. 
Yer. schles. 1876), and gives a list of those recorded from the Tatra by 
Nowicki, L. Wajgiel, L. Koch, Y. Kulczynski, and O. Hermann in 
1867-79. The Spiders recorded in the present paper are 228, all of known 
