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Taking everything into consideration, 1 prefer to treat these 

 two forms as specifically identical, regarding tuberosus as a 

 dimorphic form of male, but not in any way as a subspecies or 

 variety. 



In the specimens I have been able to examine there was but 

 little variation in the typical gibbosus male, whereas in the form 

 tuberosus the cephalo-thorax varied in shape to a considerable 

 extent. 



Oedothorax apicatus (BL), 1850. 



1850. Neriene apicata, Bl., Ann. Mag. X. H. 



1851. Erigone gibbicollis, Westr., Goteb. Hand I. 



1859. Jlicryphantes tubercidatus, Grube, Verz. Arach. Lie. Kur. 



Ehstl. 

 1864. Neriene apicata, BL, Spid. G. B. I. 

 1807. Jlicryphantes gibbus, Ohl., Ar. Prov. Preuss. 

 1879. Neriene apicata, Camb., Spid. Dorset. 

 1900. Gongylidium apicatum, Camb., List Brit. Irish Spid. 

 1904. Stylotlwrax apicatus, F. P. S., Journ. Quekett Club. 



Specimens occurred pretty freely at Hastings and also at 

 South Norwood, Surrey. 



Lophomma subaequalis (Westr.), 1851. 



1851. Erigone subaequalis, Westr., Goteb. Handl. 

 1871. Walchenaera fortuita, Camb., Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 1879. ,, subaequalis, Camb., Spid. Dorset, 



1900. Tapinocyba subaequalis, Camb., List Brit. Irish Spid. 

 1906. Lophomma subaequalis, F. P. S., Journ. Quekett Club. 



Lophomma lau datum (Camb.), 1881. 



1881. Walchenaera laudata, Camb., Spid. Dorset. 



1906. Lophomma laudatum, F. P. S., Journ. Quekett Club. 



In the Quekett Journal for November, 1907, I recorded under 

 the name Lophomma. subaequalis a number of spiders taken at 

 Hastings. A careful comparison with North of England speci- 

 mens has convinced me that these Hastings examples really 

 belong to the allied species I. laudatum. The two species are 

 extremely similar in form and structure, so much so that it has 

 been suggested that they are identical, with a slight dimorphism 



