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Family ARGIOPIDAE. 



Nesticus cellulanus (Oliv.), 1789. 



1757. Araneus cellulanus, Clk., Sv. Spindl. (Pre-Linnean). 



1789. Aranea cellulana, Oliv., Ency. Meth. 



1802. ,, crypticolens, Walck., Faune Par. 



1834. Linyphia pallidula, Bl., Researches in Zool. 



1864. „ crypticolens, Bl., Sp. G. B. I. 



1879. Nesticus cellulanus, Camb., Spid. Dorset. 



It is not easy to form anything like an accurate idea as to the 

 abundance or rarity of this species, as it seldom occurs except in 

 dark cellars or underground caverns. I secured an adult female 

 specimen at St. Leonards by removing a coal-plate which the 

 householder had kindly neglected to fasten. 



Family LINYPHIIDAE. 



Genus Enidia, F. P. Smith, 1904. 



Genus Falconeria, F. P. Smith, 1904. 



My proposition of these two genera (Journ. Quekett Club, Ser. 2, 

 Vol. ix., p. 115) has called forth prompt criticism from several 

 sources, chiefly on account of my having stated that Dahl sub- 

 stituted llypomma for Dicyphus. This statement was obviously a 

 lapsus calami, being exactly what I wished to demonstrate that 

 Dahl did not do. 



So far as I can judge, the facts of the case are as follows : — 

 In Preuss. Spin., Menge, in 1869, formulated the genus Dicyphus 

 for three species : 



D. tumidus, Menge (= bituberculatus, Wid.). 



D. cilunculus, Menge (= comutus, Bl.). 



D. bicuspidatus, Menge ( = elevatus, C. L. Koch). 



He also, at the same time, selected D. tumidus as the type. 



In 1884 Simon, in Arach. de France, formulated the genus 

 Dismodicus for two species, D. bifrons, Bl., and D. elevatus, C. L. 

 Koch. He does not, however, appear to have definitely selected 

 either species as the type. 



In 1886 Dahl, in Jfonog. Erig., placed under the name 

 Hypomma two species, H. bituberculata, Wid., and U. bifrons, Bl. 



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