. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Theridiid Spider Fauna of Chile • Levi when finally found, were in tips of shrubs (Fig. 4), usually those having small leaves, the light green female under the leaf (Fig. 5), and the darker male along the stem in the same web. Only a few collections were available from Juan Fernandez Islands (all from one island, Mas a Tierra), 650 km off the coast of Chile at the latitude of Santiago. The commonest species collected there is Anelosimus wseiis, which is also the com- monest species in Chile. Also included in the colle
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Theridiid Spider Fauna of Chile • Levi when finally found, were in tips of shrubs (Fig. 4), usually those having small leaves, the light green female under the leaf (Fig. 5), and the darker male along the stem in the same web. Only a few collections were available from Juan Fernandez Islands (all from one island, Mas a Tierra), 650 km off the coast of Chile at the latitude of Santiago. The commonest species collected there is Anelosimus wseiis, which is also the com- monest species in Chile. Also included in the collection is one species of Chrijsso and one of the Tlieridion frondeum group (T. anson), both species endemic to the island. Neither is known to have representatives in Chile. Of two additional new species from this island, one is close to Anelosimus occlhitus of Chile, the other close to A. tcpiis. It is unfortunate that there exist no revisions of the spiders of Australia, South Africa, or as yet none of the theridiid spiders of New Zealand. The fauna of southern Argentina also is not well kno\\'n, and only a few specimens from Argentina were at hand when I revised the American Theridiidae. Some of the earlest collections and de- scriptions of American spiders were made by the Frenchman, Nicolet, in the lake area of Chile (Levi, IQe^fc). Shordy after the appearance of my paper on the history of 19th century South American spider studies, I received a letter regarding Nicolet from Dr. L. van der Hammen of Leiden. A part of his letter reads, "Nicolet must have been back in Paris already in 1846. In 1855 he published a paper entitled 'Histoire Naturelle des Acariens qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.' In the introduction he writes en 1846 M. Milne Edwards m'ayant charge . .' Evidently he started his work in the Paris Museum at least in this year. Part of his types of South American spiders are apparently still present in ; Although the South American theridiid
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