. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM VOLUME XXV. 1. Contributions to a Knowledge of the Fauna of South-West Africa.—By K. F. Lawrence, V. Arachnida. (With Plates I-IV.) The following paper deals with the results obtained by the Museum's expedition to Ovamboland in 1923. The region covered by collectors on this occasion was mainly Ovamboland and a small part of Northern Damaraland ; the expedition started from Tsumeb, and, skirting the Etosha Pan, cut north-westward through Ovamboland to the Kunene
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM VOLUME XXV. 1. Contributions to a Knowledge of the Fauna of South-West Africa.—By K. F. Lawrence, V. Arachnida. (With Plates I-IV.) The following paper deals with the results obtained by the Museum's expedition to Ovamboland in 1923. The region covered by collectors on this occasion was mainly Ovamboland and a small part of Northern Damaraland ; the expedition started from Tsumeb, and, skirting the Etosha Pan, cut north-westward through Ovamboland to the Kunene River ; here several points were visited and most of the material obtained. It is hoped next year to publish the results of an expedition to the Kaokoveld in 1925. and as the results of successive years follow, it is hoped that a more or less comprehensive survey of the fauna of South-West Africa will be obtained. The Arachnid fauna of the northern parts of South-West Africa and Ovamboland in particular has been hardly touched by previous authors, although forms from the more southerly portions have been dealt with by various authors ; it is hardly strange, then, that about three-quarters of the Araneae are new. With regard to the better- known and more widely distributed group of Scorpiones, the case is different. At this point, and with many important links of evidence missing, it would be premature to draw conclusions of any value with regard to distribution ; it can, however, be said that the fauna of Ovambo- land seems more or less isolated from that of the regions to the south, VOL. XXV, PART 1. 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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