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Cyrtauchenius Walckenaerii, Luc. Algiers. C. Doleschallii, Auss. Sicily. C. similis, L. Koch. Saragossa. C. obscurus, Auss. Sicily. Nemesia cæmentaria, Latr. S. France, Spain, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Algiers. N. cæmentaria, var. germanica, Auss. Wippach, near Görz in Trieste. [N. meridionalis, Costa. Naples, Ischia, Sestri near Genoa, Mentone, and Cannes.] [N. Eleanora. Mentone and Cannes.] N. cellicola, Sav. et Aud. Rome, Sicily, and Egypt. N. maculatipes, Doleschall. Sardinia. N. badia. Auss. Corsica. N. manderstjernæ, L. Koch. Nice. N. hispanica, L. Koch. Madrid. N. macrocephala, Auss. Palermo. Brachythele icterina, C. Koch. Greece. B. incerta, Auss. Brussa. Macrothele calpetana, Walck. Southern Spain. M. luctuosa, Luc. Southern Spain. Leptopelma transalpina, Doleschall. Friuli. Ischnocolos triangulifer, Doleschall. Sicily. I. holosericeus, L. Koch. Spain. I. gracilis, Auss. Cyprus. I. syriacus, Auss. Syria. Chætopelma ægyptiaca, Dol. Egypt. D. Hints on Collecting Spiders.

It is very important to collect adult specimens of males and females, but the former, from their roaming habits, are often extremely difficult to find.

At night they may sometimes be taken by lamplight near the nests of the females, and certain kinds are said to