Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London, 1896

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720 MR. F. 0. PICKARD CAMBRIDGE O N [June 16 published in ' Sonderabdruck aus Mittheilungen aus dem Oster-lande,' neue Folge, V. Band, pp. 200-248, while Dr. Goeldi was still in the neighbourhood of Bio Janeiro, deals with the general question of the state of knowledge of the Spider-fauna of Brazil at the time he wrote. This pamphlet, entitled " Zur Orientierung in der Spinnenfauna Brasiliens," falls into four sections, the third of which is divided again into four subdivisions. I. " Der Stand der Kenntnis der brasilianischen Arachniden vor 1880." II. " Erweiterungen seit 1880." III. " Versuch einer Charakteristik der Spinnenfauna der mittleren Kiistenprovinzen Brasiliens." A. " Die Spinnenfauna der Stadt Bio de Janeiro, beziehungsweise ibrer nachsten Umgebung." B. " Die Spinnenfauna des TJrwaldgebietes der heissen Nieder-ung." C. " Die Spinnenfauna des TJrwaldgebietes des Orgelgebirges (Provinz Bio de Janeiro)." D. " Spinnen aus dem Sertao der Provinz Sao Paulo." IV. " Einige Beobachtungen fiber das Geschlechtsleben einzelner Epeiriden Brasiliens." This short though comprehensive treatise forms a valuable intro­duction to the subject, and is written in the German language. 1894. GOELDI, Dr. E.-" Estudos Arachnologicos relativos ao Brazil," Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia, Para, 1894, pp. 32-39. This short paper is the first of what Goeldi hopes will be a series of papers dealing with the whole known Spider-fauna of Brazil. It contains Section I. ' Bevisao das Territelarias Brazileiras,' divided into seven subdivisions, each of which contains a brief summary of the species of Theraphosidos described by the various authors who have written on them. A. "Territelarias de viagem Spix e Martius (1817-1820) elabo-radas por M . Perty." (Six species and two new genera, Idiops and Actlnopus.) B. '; Territelarias na grande obra de Hahn e Koch sobre os Arachnidos (1831-1848)." (Twenty-four species, subgenus Mygale, and Actlnopus tarsalis.) C. " Territelarias de viagem do Conde Francois de Castelnau elaboradas por Lucas (1843-1847)." (Six species, three new, subgenera Mygale and Actlnopus.) D. " Territelarias brazileiras citadas no trabalho monographico de A. Ausserer, 1871-1875." (Thirty species and seven doubtful under sixteen genera.) E. " Territelarias de viagem do Prof. E. von Beneden, descriptas pelo Dr. Ph. Bertkau (1880)." (Eleven species, all new ; one new genus, Thalerothele.)