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1 imm., St. No. L. 352, Lavanggu, coconut grove, under stones and plant debris, alt.1 m., 13.-14.10.1951.OTOSTIGMINIBrit. Mus. Exped.: 3 mutilated, Rennell I., 1953.6. Ethmostigmus platycepbalus platycephalus (Newport) 1845Danish Exped.: I, St. No. L. 380, Niupani, Lake Te-Nggano, coconut grove withscattered bushgrowth, alt. 25 m., 22.-23.10.1951.This species is known from the Malabar Coast of India, lava, the Moluccas, KeiIsland, New Guinea, Duke of York Island and New Britain (Bismarck Archipelago),the Solomons and Tahiti.SELECTED REFERENCESATIEMS, Graf. 1930: Das Tierreich, Lief. 54, Scolopendromorpha.BERLAND, L. 1929: Insects of Samoa and other Samoan Arthropoda. Part 8, TerrestrialArthropoda other than Insects: Araignees: 35-78. Brit. Mus. (N. H.).- 1938: Araignees des Nouvelles-Hebrides. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 107: 121-190.BoNNET, P. 1945-1955: Bibliographia Araneorum 1 and 2. Toulouse.MARPLfS, B.l. 1955: Spiders from Western Samoa. 1. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. 42:453-504.PE"rRUNKEVITCH, A. 1928: Systema Aranearum. Trans. Connecticut Acad. Art. Sci.29: 1-270.ROEWER, C. FR. 1923: Die Weberknechte der Erde, 2 vals. lena.- 1938: Resultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises deLL. AA. RR. Ie Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique. Mem. Mus. roy. Hist.nat. Belg. (Hors serie) 3, 19: 1-94.- 1942-1954: Katalog der Araneae 1, Bremen, 2, Brussels.STRAND, E. 1915: Indoaustralische, papuanische und polynesische Spinnen. Abh.Sencken. Naturf. Ges. 36, 2: 181-274.WERNER, FR. 1934-5: Bronn's Klass. Ord. Tierreichs 5. Abt. 4, Buch 8, Lief. 1-3.WOLFF, T. and BRADLEY, J. D. 1955: The Natural History of Renn'!ll Island, BritishSolomon Islands 1: 1-63. Copenhagen.81