Show spider SPECIES IN STATE IS 18 CLAIM CLA IM SALT LAKE CITY more afore than fifty species of spiders heretofore unknown in utah and including twenty new to science have recently been added to the university of 0 utah collection according to an announcement by dr ralph V chamberlain head of the department part ment of zoology at the university the specimens were collected this fall in the raft river mountain region of northwestern utah by dr chamberlain and wll wit ton ivie teaching fellow in zoology ormal formal announcement of the species will be made shortly through an official university of 0 utah bulletin prepared by dr chamberlain and mr ivie the findings finding are of special value to the collection of utah species which now number about that there are at least species of spiders in utah Is the belief of dr who expects to make maho a complete survey within a few y years e ars the work done at the university in e thus far has revealed that of the many varieties of spiders there to la but one real poisonous type in utah the tha black widow or hour glass spider tarantulas an tulas of which there are three varieties in utah are only slightly poisonous As a result of these additions the university ot of utah collection is probably the most complete of any in the western part of oc tho the united states dr chamberlain is an authority on the spiders of north american and before returning to the university of utah to become head of tho the department or of zoology was curator of the agassiz museum at harvard university ver sity |