NEW SPECIES OF THE FAMILY ATTIDAE FROM SOUTH 
AFRICA, WITH NOTES ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF 
THE GENERA FOUND IN THE ETHIOPIAN REGION 
BY GEORGE W. PECKHAM AND ELIZABETH G* PECKHAM. 
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INTRODUCTION. 
For several years we have "been receiving collections of At- 
tidae from South Africa, the largest ones coining fromj Mr. 
Guy A. K. Marshall, Mashonaland, Dr. H. Brauns, Cape Col¬ 
ony, and Mr. George F. Leigh and Mr. J. F. Quekett, Durban. 
We have also had loan collections, for description, from Mr. 
W. F. Purcell, South African Museum, Cape Town. 
Up to the present time, representatives of thirty families of 
spiders have been found in the Ethiopian Region, using that 
term in the sense in which it is employed by Mr. Wallace, in 
his Geographical Distribution of Animals', to include all of 
Africa south of the Desert of Sahara, Madagascar and the 
neighboring islands. A study of the eighty-six genera and two 
hundred and eleven species of Attidae found in this region con¬ 
firms the soundness of the divisions proposed by Mr. Wallace, 
there being few instances of the disconnected distribution of 
genera, and not one instance of importance. We give, in Ta¬ 
ble I, the distribution in detail of the Ethiopian genera of the 
family. 
