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Show 1891.] ON T H E SPIDERS OF T H E ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. 549 Fig. * 10. Eulepiste umbratipalpis, 3, p- 611. Genital segments. 11. Acrolophus vitellus, 3» P- 512. Genital segments. * 12. poeyi, 3, p. 512. Genital segments. 13. walsinghami, 3, P- 514. Genital segments. * 14. Anaphora noctuina, 3, p- 515. Genital segments. * 15. Felderia dimicliella, 3, p- 516. Genital segments. * = Drawn from the type. The figures are all enlarged. 3. On the Spiders of the Island of St. Vincent.-Part I. By E. SIMON l. [Received October 16, 1891.] (Plate XLII.) [The Spiders dealt with in this memoir have all been obtained in the island of St. Vincent, British "West Indies, by Mr. H. H. Smith, who was sent to the island by Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., in order that he might assist the joint Committee appointed by the British Association and the Royal Society to report on and investigate the Natural History of the West-Indian Islands. M. Eugene Simon has, at the request of the Committee, been so good as to undertake the examination and description of the Spiders2, and in this paper he gives the result of his examination of the specimens belonging to the families Aviculariidse, Filistatidae, Uloboridee, Dysderidse, Oonopidse, Leptonetidse, Sicariidse, Caponi-idse, Drassidse, and Palpimanidse. As only a portion of the Order Aranese is treated of in this first result of M . Simon's studies it would be premature to give statistics, but it is worth while to call attention to the facts that a great portion of the species-about 80 per cent.-are found to be new, and that a considerable number of the novelties are known to occur also in Venezuela, which country M . Simon himself recently visited, with the result of discovering a very large number of new Spiders and insects.-D. S.] Ordo AEANEiB, Sund. Subordo ARANE.E THERAPHOSiE, Walck. 1. Familia A v i c u L A R I I D JR. 1. Sectio Aviculariidce triongchce. Subfamilia PARATROPIN^E. Gen. ANISASPIS, nov. gen. Cephalothorax humilis, fovea carens. Oculi fere ut in Paratropi, sed inter se magis appropinquati et subcontigui. Partes oris 1 Communicated by Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., F.Z.S., on behalf of the Committee for Investigating the Fauna and Flora of the West-Indian Islands. 2 With the exception of those belonging to the family Attidaj, which will be worked out by Mr. Geo. W . Peckham, of Milwaukee. |
