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THE paper above noted forms Part III. of an important and interesting series upon the Arachnida of Africa, and was first published in Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturali di Genova, vol. xx. pp. 5-105. Its subject-matter comprises the collection of Arachnids formed by Count Orazio Antinori in the kingdom of Scioa in the years 1877-1882. Before entering upon the details of this paper it will be well to notice briefly the two preced ing ones of the same series. Part I. (published in the same Journal in 1880) states that the object of the series is to bring together all the existing materials in the shape of papers and other works on African Arachnida and present them on one plan and method in accordance with the following five zoological provinces:—(1) Mediterranean (extending nearly to the Tropic of Cancer, and ineluding the Azores, Madeira, Canaries, and Cape de Verde Islands); (2) Oriental, or, rather, Central and Oriental African; (3) Western African (from the Gam bia to the Congo); (4) Southern (included by a line drawn from Kalabini to Limpopo, and comprising a portion of the eastern coast to the Mozambique); (5) Malagasic (i.e. the Lemur country with Madagascar). Various ex peditions and other means by which materials have been obtained are mentioned, and a bibliographical list is given, in the introduction, of the numerous published works and papers on African Arachnida from the days of Linnaeus to the present time. The Arachnida described and recorded in this first part are from Tunis, while the second part (published loc. cit. vol. xvi. 1881) simply contains an account of a collection of Arachnids from Inhambane (in the southern region), with some consider ations on the Arachno-fauna of the Mozambique, of which a list of species is also added.
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C., O. African Spiders 1 . Nature 29, 408–409 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029408a0
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