ARANEIDEA. 
Arad in. 5 
Van Hasselt, A. W. M., in the “ Bijdrage over de nesten der zoge- 
namde Metselpinnen,’’ doubts whether the nest ascribed by Ausserer to 
Eurypelma steindachneri really belongs to this species ; Tijdschr. Ent. 
xxvi. pp. 229 et seq. 
Cryptothele cristata, sp. n., E. Simon, C.R. ent. Belg. 1884, p. 302, 
Mexico. 
Cyrtocarenum. Greek species tabulated (C. jonicum , lapidarium, 
Tiellenum , grajum , cunicularium) ; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1884, p. 384. 
Idiops crassus , sp. n., id. Ann. Mus. Genov, xx. p. 357, Burmah. 
Ischnocolus fuscostriatus , sp. n., id. Explor. Tunisie, p. 41. 
Nemesia ccementaria. Nest described ; Stirrup, P. Manch. Soc. xxiv. 
pp. 17 & 18. 
Phrictus flavopilosus , sp. n., E. Simon, Ann. Mus. Genov, xx. p. 358, 
Burmah. 
Selenocosmia greeffi , sp. n., F. Karsch, SB. Ges. Marb. 1884, p. 60, 
S. Thome. 
Sphcerobothria hoffmanni (Karsch). $ described ; F. Karsch, Abh. 
Yer. Brem. ix. p. 40. 
Dysderidje 
Xestaspis , g. n. Allied to Gamasomorplia ; differing in the clypeus 
being narrower than the anterior eyes, and the legs not being aculeated ; 
for X. ( Oonops) loricata (L. Koch) and nitida , sp. n., Bou-Saada ; E. Simon, 
Bull. Soc. Zool. ix. p. 324. 
Dysdera cribellata , p. 294, fig. 17, macra , p. 295, fig. 18, verneaui , 
p. 296, fig. 19, insulana , p. 297, fig. 20, spp. nn., all from the Canaries, 
id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1883, pi. viii. 
Hcirpactes krueperi, p. 344, Athens, abantinus, p. 345, Euboea, spp. nn,, 
id. op. cit. 1884. 
Leptonetci spinimana, sp. n., id. Bull. Soc. Zool. ix. p. 325, Blidah, Algiers. 
Segestria davidi, sp. n., id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1884, p. 190, Beirut, 
Attim;. 
Kulczynski, W. Conspectus Attoidarum Galicise. Rozpraw i Spra- 
wozdan Wydz. matem.-przyr. Akad. Umiej. xii. pp. 135-232, pis. 
vii. & viii. 
The author records from Gallicia 46 species, 8 of which for the first 
time, and gives synonymical notes on many species :—Synageles hilarulus , 
Heliophanus, Mcirptusa, Dendryphantes hastatus, D. bombycius, D. rudis , 
Philceus, Hasarius arcuatus , H. falcatus, Attus floricola , A. rupicola , 
Ictidops , Euophrys monticolci. 
Peckham, G. W., & E. G. Descriptions of New or Little-known 
Spiders of the Family Attidce , from various parts of the U. S. of 
North America. Milwaukee : 1883, pp. 1-35, with 3 pis. 
The author describes Epiblemum palinarum , Synemosynci formica , 
Attus carclinalis , A. tripunctatus of Hentz, and 21 spp. nn. 
