TITLES. 
Araclm. 3 
This Record must not be allowed to pass without some protest being 
entered against the present method of publishing multitudes of specific 
descriptions without figures — diagrammatic or otherwise. Doubtless the 
descriptions of a thoroughly trained and competent araclinologist may be 
better than bad figures and it is not for one moment contended that it is 
always necessary to publish figures, but some radical changes from the 
present fashion are necessary, or future systematists will find the task of 
grappling with the literature of the group almost an impossible one. 
The Recorder would also like to ask Systematists, when publishing papers, 
to notify the families to which they consider the genera to belong. No two 
arachnologists seem to agree on the limits of any particular family and 
a great deal of confusion exists through the lack of any clue to the 
author’s views. In consequence, this year the Recorder has been regret- 
fully compelled to arrange the Acari alphabetically, there being no 
possibility of placing the genera otherwise. 
Finally the Recorder most gratefully thanks Mr R. I. Pocock (of the 
British Museum), for much valuable help in harmonising conflicting views 
and in placing genera in the Systematic list. 
I. TITLES* 
1. Aceoque, A. Points do contact des Insectcs avee les autres Arthro- 
podes. Naturalisto, xix, 1897, pp. 132 -134. 
2. Anon. Are the Arthropoda a Natural Group ? Summary of opinion. 
Nat. Sci. x, pp. 115-117. 
3. Balbiani, E. G. Contribution l’dtude des s<5cr<$tions 6pithdliales dans 
l’appareil femelle des Arachnides. Arch. Anat. Micr. i, pp. 1-68, 
pis. i & ii. 
4. Banks, N. Descriptions of New Spiders. Canad. Ent. xxix, pp. 1 93— 
197. - 
5. Becker, L. Les Arachnides de Belgique. Part ii, pp. 1-127, 25 pis. 
in, pp. 378, 18 pis. Ann. Mus. Belgique, Tom. xii, 1896. [The plates 
and text are published in two separate volumes.] 
Beille, L. [See Dubreuilh & Beille (33).] 
6. *Berlese, A. Ricerche sugli organi e sulla funzione della digestione 
negli Acari. Portici, 1896, pp. 42, 36 figg. in text, 1 pi. 
7. . Acari, Myriopoda et Scorpiones hucusque in Italia reperta. 
Parts lxxviii, lxxix, Index to Pts. 1-77, and Introduction to Crypto- 
stigmata ( Oribatidce ), pp. 1-98, pis. i-x, 1896. Pts. lxxx-lxxxiv, and 
Introduction to Cryptostigmata ( Sarcoptidce ), pp. 1-190, pis. i-xv, 1897. 
8. Bernard, H. M. Wind Scorpions — A Brief Account of the Galeodidce. 
Science Progress, New Ser. i, pp. 317-343. [Abstract in J. R. Micr. 
Soc. 1897, p. 380.] 
9. . Are the Arthropoda a Natural Group ? Nat. Sci. x, pp. 98-100. 
10. Birula, A. Zamyetki o skorpionakh ii [Miscellanea Scorpiologica ii]. 
Zur Synonymic dor russischen Scorpione. Annuaire Mus. St. Petersb. 
1897, pp. 377-392. 
* An asterisk prefixed to a quotation indicates that the Recorder lias not seen the 
Journal or Work referred to. 
