{"content":[{"text":"The Journal of Arachnology 10 :96","bbox":{"left":0.149573,"top":0.026312,"width":0.258461,"height":0.015116000000000001}},{"text":"Chapter 6—Accounts of Genera and Species. A 90 page chapter, of which six ar e \n references and 53 are illustrations. Twenty-six species are each given two full pages of \n illustrations: one page being an entire dorsal view ; the other detailing lateral and ventra l \n views of the metasoma, the dorsoexternal aspect of the pedipalp chela, dorsal aspect of \n the chelicera (fingers closed), the sternopectinal area, and a ventral view of the prosom a \n and mesosoma. The drawings are indeed striking in their precision and are very nice piece s \n of artwork, but they are deemed useless for identification and/or recognition purposes . \n The species illustrated appear to have been chosen on the basis of their availability whil e \n the author was in Japan (where five artists prepared the drawings) . Of 26 species listed in \n Chapter 2 as being of medical importance, only 14 are illustrated . And 12 species of little \n or no medical importance (perhaps other than their large size and potential fo r \n entomophobia) are included . \n For most arachnologists the overall usefulness of this book resides in the references \n provided at the end of the chapters, and the justification for such a high-priced partia l \n bibliography is the aesthetic value of the illustrations . \n Oscar F. Francke, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lub- \n bock, Texas 79409 .","bbox":{"left":0.149573,"top":0.067238,"width":0.762824,"height":0.294533}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}