AUSTRALASIAN

ARACHNOLOGY

Number 51: April 1996

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THE AUSTRALASIAN BACK ISSUES ARACHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY Back issues are available from the Administrator at $1 per issue. The main aim of the society is to foster interest in in the Australasian LIBRARY region. Members who do not have access to a MEMBERSHIP scientific library can write to our Librarian

Information concerning membership may be Jean-Claude Herremans obtained from the Administrator: P.O. Box 291 Manly, New South Wales 2095, Richard J. Faulder Australia Agricultural Institute Yanco, New ·south Wales 2703, He has a large number of reference books, Australia scientific journals and scientific papers Email [email protected] available, either for loan or as photocopies. He also asks our professional members to All membership enquiries (subscriptions, send him a copy of any reprints they might changes of address, etc.) must be directed to have. the Administrator. ARTICLES Membership fees for residents in Australia, $3; in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, Articles should be sent to the editor: $4; other members $5 (surface mail) (airmail rates: $10). Fees for Australian institutions, Mark S. Harvey $4; overseas institutions, $8 (surface mail). Western Australian Museum Cheques should be made payable to "The Francis Street Australasian Arachnological Society", and Perth, Western Australia 6000, should be in Australian dollars. More than Australia one year's subscription may be paid for at a Email [email protected] time. and should be typed or legibly written on Receipts are not issued unless requested. The one side of A4 paper. Submission via email Status box on the mailing label indicates the or on computer disk would vastly simplify number of the last issue for which you have publication. Don't forget to indicate the paid. word-processing language used (e.g. WordPerfect 6.0, Word for Windows, MacWrite). The disk will be returned only upon request.

Cover illustration: Nicodamus peregrinus (Walckenaer) by Graham Milledge Australasian Arach11ology - Page 3

XIII INTERNATIONAl CONGRESS venoms and ecology. Barbara York Main OF ARACHNOLOGY was one of the first speakers asking the question are Australian Funnelweb by Cor Vink bites overkill or a result of co-evolution? Department of Entomology, Lincoln Mary Whitehouse was supposed to speak on University, P.O. Box 84, Canterbury, Tuesday but a nasty tummy bug had other New Zealand ideas, so her talk was postponed. Tuesday night was the night of the poster session and 20,000 kilometres is a long way to travel to Donna Rayner's poster was on the effects of get to a conference but the XIII International pesticides on in Queensland mango Congress of Arachnology in Switzerland was orchards; people also got a chance to see my well worth the trip. A dozen Australasians preliminary results on the and joined their 190 or so colleagues to become systematics of New Zealand lycosids. part of the largest congress yet. Wednesday we turned up bright and early, I arrived at the airport only being able to say hopped on a few large buses and headed off 'hello', 'thank you' and 'do you speak in to the Pare nature! jurassique. We ftrst English?' in French. After a wee while and stopped at the south-western end of the Lac some help from some friendly English de Joux and spiderised around a patch of speaking Genevites I managed to get to the Swiss native bush and "one of the best Mus6um d'histoire naturelle for registration. preserved natural shore-lines." We then I registered and eventually made my wi..y by travelled to an inn and had a pleasant lunch. bus to the hostel of the University of Geneva After lunch we drove into the middle of the (there arc very few signs or instructions in Pare jurassien vaudois. The thin road and Switzerland, it is just assumed that you know wide bus made for a ride that would rival how everything works). Things kicked off any found in Disneyland. We all clambered with an unofficial welcome in the Museum out of the buses and, wandered through on the first night. H was great to be able to meadows to the gentle clanging of cow bells. catch up with other ANZACs (Australian and Eventually the delegates reached a ridge New Zealand Arachnological Colleagues) where we could see Geneva at the foot of and other people that I hadn't seen for three Lake Geneva; unfortunately Mount Blanc years. was only barely visible through the clouds that day. We then walked down the other Over the entire congress the talks were well side to the waiting buses that took us back to organised (in fact they ran almost as well as the city. a Swiss watch). The talks on Monday were centred around behaviour and physiology. By Thursday Mary Whitehouse had fought We got to hear and see some of the vibratory off the tummy bug and gave her talk on the communications that go on between lycosids behaviour of the kleptoparasite Argyrodes thanks to TorbjOm Kronestedt and Dctlev amipodiana. The morning talks continued Cordes. Daiqin Li presented his work on the ecological theme. Jan Green talked about prey preference behaviours in specialised spiders in Australian citrus ecosystems. The salticids. Monday night was the official afternoon sessions were on palaeontology reception by the City of Geneva; I arrived and systematics. Charles Griswold showed us after the speech making (and food and drink) the latest on the phylogeny of the was fmished. cyatholipids and Robert Raven presented the phylogeny of the Theraphosidina. Tuesday's themes were prey, predators and Australasian Arachnology- Page 4

The congress dinner was held on Thursday NEW RECORDS OF SALT LAKE evening. It was originally to be held at the LYCOSIDS IN AUSTRALIA Musee d'art et d'histoire but a last minute cancellation meant that Volker Mahnert and By Peter Hudson his helpers had to change the venue to the Museum itself. Full credit to Volker and the School of Biological Sciences, Flinders gang as the evening went very smoothly University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South despite the last minute organisations. Australia 5001, Australia

The final day's themes were taxonomy, To date three species of salt lake inhabiting systematics and biogeography. Val Davies wolf spiders have been described; Lycosa presented a paper on a new amaurobiid eyrei (Hickman, 1944), Lycosa alteripa genus from Australia. Glenn Hunt gave a McKay, 1976 and Lycosa salifodina McKay, preliminary look at phylogenetics of 1976. Hudson and Adams (in prep.) have Australian Triacnonychidae along with his conducted an allozyme study of these spiders own version of the song 'Trees'. Mark from southern Australia and several new and Harvey presented the last of the Australasian interesting records have come to light as a talks as he explained the biogeography of result of extensive collecting. Gondwanan pseudoscorpions. L. eyrei, which up until recently was only In a flash it was all over and I was catching known from S.A., was collected by the a 5 am taxi to the airport with Glenn Hunt. author in July 1992 from Lake Tyrrell. This The Congress was full of interesting and is the first record of L. eyrei from Victoria informative papers, however, it would be and the closest known locality is near Port nice not to have to sit through talks Augusta thus representing a considerable consisting of species lists in future range extension. congresses. Geneva is now a memory of countless valuable discussions, being able to In April, 1994 L. sa/ifodina was collected by walk through parks at night in the safest city the author from Wyola Lakes in S.A. This I've ever been in and all the exciting sneak species was previously known only to occur previews of spider phylogenies. Keep your inW.A. eyes peeled for the special edition of Revue suisse de Zoo/ogle early next year. In addition to the above new records the author is currently describing a new species of salt lake wolf spider from the Lake Lefroy region in W.A.

Whilst few people tend to spend time on the surface of salt lakes the author would be most interested to see illl.Y spiders, or for that matter any invertebrate that others may happen to find living on salt lakes.

The author acknowledges the support of the South Australian Museum and The Western Mining Corporation in enabling collections to be made from the Great Victoria Desert and the Lake lefroy region respectively. The Australasian AracJmology - Page 5

Maralinga Tjarutja Aboriginal Land Trust is to Aname. Main (1982) redescribed the also acknowledged for their pcnnission to species and likewise transferred D. collect from the Wyola Lakes. diversicolor to the genus Aname and designated a neotype in order to preserve References nomenclatural stability. Raven (1981) and Hickman, V.V. (1944). The Simpson Desert Main (1982) explained that neither "Deka expedition, 1939. Scientific Reports No. 1, Station" or "Blackhall" could be traced, and Biology Scorpions and spiders. Main (1982) explained that a "Delta Station" Transactions of the Royal Society of South is located near "Blackall" in western Australia 68: 18-48. Queensland. Raven (1981, p. 338) suggested that "Blackhall" could have been a misnomer McKay, R.I. (1976). The wolf spiders of for "Blackhill" which could have referred to Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae): 8. Two new . several sites in South Australia. Finally, species inhabiting salt lakes of Western Main (1982, p. 26) ventured that the original Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland type locality was "Colona station, Blackhill", Museum 17: 417-423. situated in South Australia. She then designated a neotype male from 26 km NW. of Elliston, South Australia (lodged in the South Australian Museum, registration A NOTE ON THE TYPE LOCALITY number N1980196), to replace the missing OF DEKANA DIVERS/COLOR HOGG holotype.

by Mark S. Harvey' and In a thorough reVISion of the northern Barbara York Main2 Australian members of the Aname pal/ida species-group, Raven (1985) suggested that 1 Western Australian Museum, Hogg's original description of D. Francis Street, Perth, diversicolor was sufficient to recognise that Western Australia 6000, Australia Main's A. diversicolor was in fact a different 2 Department of Zoology, University of species, and that the neotype designation was Western Australia, Nedlands, unnecessary and invalid. Furthennore, Raven Western Australia 6005, Australia (1985) described Aname camara Raven from Aramac, Queensland (22°58'S, 145° l4'E) In his original description of the which greatly resembled Hogg's description mygalomorph Dekana diversicolor of D. diversicolor. (), Hogg (1902) gave the type locality as "Deka Station, near Blackhall" While inspecting the South Australian without any further locality data. The single Museum collection of golden orb-weaving specimen, a male, has not been subsequently spiders, one of us (MSH) found a vial found in any museum collection including containing two specimens of Nephila edulis the Natural History Museum, London (Main, (Labillardiere) which had been identified as 1982) where much of Hogg's material is N. eremiana by H.R. Hogg. These lodged, or the South Australian Museum, the specimens were accompanied by a label in a institution that had sent Hogg material for handwriting other than Hogg 's which reads his paper of 1902 (David Hirst, pers. "R Mall I Deka Station I nr Blackhall Qu" comm.). (Fig. 1). The locality label appears to be tom after the "Qu". Raven (1981) synonymised Dekana with Anmne thereby transferring D. diversicolor Australasian Arachnology - Page 6

Main, B. Y. (1976). Spiders. Collins: Sydney.

Main, B.Y. (1982). Notes on the revised taxonomic position of the Black Wisllbone spider Dekana diversicolor Hogg (: Dipluridae). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 65: 25- Fig. 1. Locality label associated with 29. Nephila edulis in South Australian Museum, Adelaide. Raven, R.J. (1981). A review of the Australian genera of the mygalomorph spider It seems reasonable to speculate that Hogg subfamily Diplurinae (Dipluridae: had examined one or more vials of spiders ). Australian Journal of Zoology dispatched from the South Australian 29: 321-363. Museum labelled "Deka Station nr Blackhall". Indeed, it is possible that the Raven, R.J. (1985). A revision of the Aname holotype of D. diversicolor may have been pallida species-group in northern Australia returned by Hogg to the South Australian (Anaminae: Nemesiidae: Araneae). Museum but for some reason is now either Australian Joumal of Zoology 33: 377-409. unrecognisable (i.e. Hogg's identification label has been lost) or was never received by that institution. BOOK NEWS This new information appears to confmn that the type locality of D. diversicolor was Ray and Lyn Forster (Dunedin, New indeed Delta Station, near Blackall (23°29'S, Zealand) write that Ray's volumes (1-6) on 145°30'E), as speculated by Main (1976, New Zealand spiders are still available from: 1982) and Raven (1985). The Otago Museum While this does not affect the neotype P.O. Box 6202 designation made by Main (1982), there is Dunedin now compelling evidence based upon new NEW ZEALAND knowledge of the original type locatity that the species currently known as A. Prices are available on request from the diversicolor (sensu Main 1982) is not Otago Museum. conspecific with the specimen described by Hogg ( 1902). Further collections from Their general books, Spiders of New Zealand western Queensland are needed to finnly - at! Introduction and Small Land <; of establish the identity of the original D. New Zealand, are both out of print, but they diversicolor. hope to get them republished (and updated) next year. Stay tuned. References Hogg, H.R. (1902). On some additions to the Australian spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London 1902 (2): 121- 142. Australasian Arachnology - Page 7

BOOK REVIEW: would be to have a map showing the 'SOME COMMON SPIDERS IN distribution of the funnel web spiders around AUSTRALIA' Australia (this would emphasise that these spiders are restricted to eastern Australia). by Julianne M. Waldock The photographs of the trapdoor and funnel Western Australian Museum web spiders have been superimposed on a Francis Street, Perth, white background, that is, the image of the Western Australia 6000, Australia spider has been excised from the original background which makes the result too Gray, M.R. (1993). Some Common Spiders contrasty and it is difficult to distinguish fine in Australia. Bayer Australia: Sydney. 17 details (particularly the photograph of the pp. male Sydney funnel-web on page 3). Some other photographs are much clearer because This rather slim volume has been produced the spiders were photographed from directly for the general public as a basic handbook above with each leg more evenly depicted. covering some common Australian spiders. Within the 17 pages it covers 15 species of On the whole, this small booklet would be a spiders ranging from the highly venomous useful addition to the family library as a such as the funnel-web spiders and redback guide to the spiders the majority of spider to other common species that, are Australians have queries about or have known to bite humans. In fact, all spiders contact with in and around their homes. At discussed in this booklet are either large around $7 a copy it would not be an spiders or are known to bite on occasion. expensive addition to public libraries except that it rna y be difficult to fmd on the shelf Each entry consists of a double page spread because of its small size. or a single page with colour photographs of the spider. Both male and female are represented for the funnel-web spiders, mouse spiders, trapdoor spiders, golden orb­ BOOK REVIEW: weaving spider, and white-tailed spider. 'INVERTEBRATES IN HOT AND Included with each entry is a paragraph on COLD ARID ENVIRONMENTS' Distribution; Identification and Habits; Bite; and First Aid. by Donald S. Horning

Unfortunately, the title of this booklet is too Tumblegum Research Laboratory, RMB 902, wide ranging. The spiders mentioned are Loomberah via Tamworth, New South Wales common in southern and south-eastern 2340, Australia Australia but the booklet would be of little usc in northern Australia. Under the section Somme, L. (1995). Invertebrates in Hot and on the black house spider, insignis Cold Arid Environmellls. Springer-Verlag, is mentioned in the heading but the text Berlin. 275 pp. ISBN 3-540-58985-6. discusses these spiders as more than a single DM 248.00 (about A$240.00). species; perhaps it would be less confusing to say Badumna species instead. Funnel-web This excellent volume forms part of a series spiders do not occur in Western Australia. 'Adaptations of Desert Organisms' edited by the highly respected J.L. Cloudsley­ Another suggestion for increased clarity Thompson. There are 12 chapters in this Australasian Arachnology ~ Page 8 book and the first two provide a these 'non-entities' eventually by reading the comprehensive background to the climate of entire book. These are minor points and arid environments and the fauna of hot and should not really worry the reader but they cold deserts. One strong point of this work, do provide delights to book reviewers. illustrated in these first two chapters, is that attention is given to polar deserts as well as The covers, binding, illustrations, print style hot temperate and subtropical deserts. There and general presentation of the book are are many works on hot deserts but not so excellent. It is very sturdy and should last a much on polar deserts. Professor Somme has long time, even with heavy use, such as in even compared similarities to these two libraries. The publishers, Springer-Verlag, seemingly opposite environments. Other and their associates are environmentally chapters include 'Tolerance to Arid friendly and the pages in the book are low­ Conditions in Terrestrial ', or no-chlorine pulp and arc acid free. 'Physiology of Tolerance to Desiccation', 'Anhydrobiosis in Terrestrial Invertebrates', This is an excellent reference on the 'Behavioural Adaptations', 'Phenological adaptation of invertebrates from both hot and Adaptations', 'Water Balance During cold arid environments. It specially would be Overwintering', 'Cold Hardiness in suitable for invertebrate behaviourists, Terrestrial Arthropods', 'Hot Desert ecologists and physiologists. For Arthropods at Low Temperatures', 'Cold arachnidologists, this is a good general Tolerance in 'Lower' Invertebrates reference to adaptations of invertebrates in (nematodes, tardigrades, rotifers and hot and cold arid environments. It should lumbricid earthworms)' and 'Summary and provide many ideas where research could be Conclusions'. pursued. The very high price for the book (about A$240.00) may exclude it from the Although the list of references is extensive bookshelves of non-sponsored research and impressive, the subject index is not scientists. comprehensive. For instance, tardigrades or Tardigrada are not listed in this index and one would have to search through it for pertinent generic names, yet would still miss ARACHNOLOGY AND THE general references. As the table of contents INTERNET does not list aU places where tardigrades are covered either, the only way to have a The Internet has become a very useful place complete index of this group would be to to find information on various subjects. At read the entire book and make one's own the moment however you can hardly find index. Although this argument applies to the anything about spiders and their relatives. general references to various groups of arachnids as well, acarinologists would be In cooperation with Mark Stowe and Al able to fmd references to their specific Cady from the AAS, a new mailing list is groups of mites, even though the general started named 'arachnology'. In the ncar index for mites is not complete. There are future we envision that the discussion list's some typographical errors, failure to put primary focus will be the creation of scientific names in italics (page 143 shows arachnological databases on the Internet. this particularly). Sometimes a scientific Discussion on the list will however cover name is given without any reference as to many other topics that are of interest to what phylum it may belong and this inhibits arachnologists and their societies. Everyone browsing. It is possible to identify most of with E-mail access can join the list by Australasimt Arachnology - Page 9 sending a message to: R. Raven [email protected] [email protected] J. Rienks RIENKS [email protected] D. Rowell David.Rowell@ANU .edu.au and typing within the body of the message: P. Sirvid [email protected] subscribe arachnology K. Strong [email protected] end C. Vink [email protected]

You then receive a message with a short description of the list. After you have subscribed, you can post a message to the RECENT PUBLICATIONS entire group be sending it to: ON AUSTRALASIAN ARACHNOLOGY [email protected] Bloszyk, J. and Halliday, R.B. (1995). A More infonnation on this mailing list can be new species of Dinyclms Kramer from obtained from the list owner: Tasmania (Acarina: Dinychidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: Herman VANUYTVEN 187-191. E-mail: [email protected] Vekestraat 1, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium Davies, V.T. (1995). A new spider genus (Araneae: Amaurobioidea: Amphinectidae) from the wet tropics of Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38: 463~469. EMAIL ADDRESSES Gerson, U. and Meyer, M.K.P.S. (1995). As promised in Australasian Arachnology NeUstigmaeus, a new Australian genus in the 49, I have compiled a list of email addresses family Stigmaeidae (Acari: Prostigmata). for those Australasian arachnologists known Acaro/ogia 36: 219-222. to be connected to the net. Please end any updates, errors or omissions to the Editor for Hancock, A.J. and Rowell, D.M. (1995). A inclusion in future newsletters. chromosomal hybrid zone in the Australian hunstman spider, De/ena cancerides A. Austin [email protected] (Araneae: Sparassidae). Evidence for a T. Churchill [email protected] hybrid zone near Canberra, Australia. M. Elgar [email protected] Australim1 Joumal of Zoology 43, 173-180. R. Faulder [email protected] L. [email protected] Honniga, G., Eberhard, W.G. and M. Gray [email protected] Coddington, J.A. (1995). Web-construction J. Green [email protected] in Australian Phonognatha and the J. Grimshaw phylogeny of nephiline and tetragnathid [email protected]' spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Australian B. Guerin [email protected] Journal of Zoology 43: 313-364. R. Halliday [email protected] M. Harvey [email protected] Jocqu6, R. (1995). Notes on Australian P. Hudson [email protected] \/Zodariidae (Araneae), I. New taxa and key W. Humphreys [email protected](\ to the genera. Records of the Australian R. Jackson [email protected] Museum 47: 117-140. T. Qin [email protected] Australasian Arachnology- Page 10

Jocque, R. (1995). Notes on Australian 279. Zodariidae (Araneae), II. Redescriptions and new records. Records of the Australian Raven, R.J. and Schwendinger, P.J. (1995). Muse/1111 47: 141-160. Three new mygalomorph genera from Thailand and China (Araenae) [sic]. Memoirs Judson, M. (1995). Studies on the of the Queensland Museum 38: 623-641. Teneriffiidae (Acari: Anystoidea). II. A review of the genus Austroteneritfia. Seymour, J., Volschenk, E. and Scott, B. Invertebrate Tw:onomy 9: 827-839. (1995). Record of the scorpion Liocheles karscltii (Keyserling, 1855 [sic)) from north Klompen, J .S.H., Keirans, J .E. and Durden, east Queensland (Scorpionida: lschnuridae). L.A. (1995). Three new species of ticks Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38: 532. (lxodida: Argasidae: Carios) from fruit bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) in the Tucker, A.D. (1995), First record of Australasian region, with notes on host parasitism by a tick on an Australian associations. Acarologia 36: 25-40. freshwater crocodile. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38: 686. Knihinicki, D.K. and Halliday, R.B. (1995). The Pollen Mite, Melittiphis alvearius Walters, D.E., Halliday, R.B. and Smith, D. (Berlese) (Acarina: Laelapidae) newly (1995). The Oriental Red Mite, recorded from beehives in Australia. Journal Eutetranyc/ms orienta/is (Klein) (Acarina: of the Australian Entomological Society 34: Tetranychidae). Journal of the Australian 323-325. Entomological Society 34: 307-308.

Lawless, P.B. (1995). Brush-footed trapdoor Wunderlich, J. (1995). Pirst endemic (Ozicrypta sp.) burrows and geckos at Australian Oecobiidae and Nesticidae Wando Vale, NEQ. Memoirs of the (Arachnida: Araneae). Memoirs of the Queensland Muse11m 38: 470. Queensland Museum 38: 691-692.

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Ovtsharenko, V.I. and Platnick, N.l. (1995). P.O. Box 291, Manly, On the Australasian ground spider genera New South Wales 2095, Australia Anzacia and Ade/plwdrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates The arachnological continues to grow at a 3154: 1-16. great rate, with reprint donations by Drs David M. Rowell and Mark S. Harvey Quinlan, T.G., Smith, G.T. and Calver, (Australia), Dr Ray Porster (New Zealand), M.C. (1995). Relationships between Dr Volker Mahnert (Switzerland), Dr Sandor morphology and feeding behaviour in the Mahunka (Hungary), Drs Leon Baert and syntopic scorpions Urodacus armatus Pocock Jean Kekenbosch (Belgium}, who went out and Urodacus novaelwllandiae Peters of their way to obtain hard to get (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae). Journal of the publications. Many thanks also to Dr Donald Australian Entomological Society 34: 277- S. Horning (Australia) who donated seven Australasian Arachnology - Page 11 boxes of reprints, all concerning Macquarie Museum national d 'Histoire nalltrelle de Island. Paris. Bulletin. Vol. 28 (1922)+ Myrmecia (AES Newsleller). #I, 1965+ We also have a substantial collection of National Science Museum Tokyo. Bulletin. serials, which are listed below and are Vol. I, 1954- Vol. 17, 1974 available to members for loan. National Science Museum Tokyo. Bulletin. Ser. A, Zoology. Vol. I, 1975 + Acta arachnologica. Vol. 28, 1978+ National Science Museum Tokyo. Memoirs. Acta zoologica cracoviensis. Vol. 32, 1989+ #I, 1968+ American Arachnology. Newsletter. #20, Naturwissenschafilichen Vereins in Hamburg. 1979+ Verhandflmgen. (NF). #23, 1979+ Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis Naturwissenschafilichen Verei11s in Hamburg. Jumgarici. Vol. 60, 1968+ Abhandlungen. (NF). #24, 1982+ Annates zoologici, Warszawa. Vol. 43, New Zealand Emomologist. Vol. 1, 1951; 1989+ Vol. 4, 1968+ [wanting: vol. 2 & Arabel. Vol. I, 1986+ 3] Arachnologia, CIDA. No. I, 1984+ New Zealand Journal of Zoology. Vol. 1, Aracnologia, Momevideo. #l, 1983+ 1974+ [wanting: #4] Nne/ope. #10, 1993 ; 12 ; 16+ Aracnologia, Suplemelllo. #2, 1981 + Research Group for the study of African [wanting: #I] arachnids. Newsleuer. Ill, 1986 Arac/mologische Mitteilung ell. Vol. 1, Revue arac/mologique. Vol. 1, 1977+ 1991 + Serket. Vol. I, 1987+ Arthropoda Selecta. Vol. I, 1992+ Societe royale beige d'Entomologie. Bulletin Australasian Arachnology. #l, 1979+ & Anna/es. Vol. 109, 1973+ Australian entomological Society. Journal. Societe zoologique de France. Bulletin. Vol. 1, 1962+ Vol. 64, 1939- Vol. 66, 1941 British araclmological Society. Bulletin. Vol. Vol. 71, 1946- Vol. 80, 1955 I, 1969+ Vol. 84, 1959- Vol. 91, 1966 British araclmological Society. Secretary Vol. 97, 1972+ News lellers. #I, 1971- #30, 1981 Spider Club News. Vol.4, 1989+ British arachnological Society. Flatford Mill Spb:iana. Vol. 1, 1977+ Spider Group. Bulletin. #1,1959 - Sph:iana. Supplemem. #1, 1978+ [wanting: #20,1963 #2] British arac/mological Society. British Spider Steenstmpia. Vol. I, 1976+ Study Group. Bulletin. #21, 1964 - Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 1, #40,1968 1983+ Elllomologicheskoe Obozrenie. Vol. 69 Zoological Scripta. Vol. 1, 1971 + (1990)+ Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden. Vol. 60, Fauna of Australia. Volume 1, 1987+ 1986+ FarmaofNewZealand. #1, 1982+ Zoologische Verhattdelingen, Leiden. #233, Folia elllomologica Jumgarica. Vol. 30, 1986+ 1977+ Invertebrate Taxonomy. VoL 1, 1987+ Journal of Arachnology. Vol. I, 1973+ Korean Arachnology. Vol. 1, 1985+ Miscellanea zoo/ogica Jumgarica. Vol. 1, 1982+ Australasian Arachnology- Page 12

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