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original N. ccementaria, Latr., was found) malces it 

 more than probable that the Montpellier, and not the 

 Mentone, species is the true N. ccementaria. Certainly 

 as yet no other species more likely than this to be 

 the one described by Latreille has been found at 

 Montpellier ; in fact, the one here described is the 

 common one found there, and alone answers to 

 Latreille's character of having a nest with a lid of 

 the cork type. 



It has become therefore necessary now to record 

 the Mentone species under another name, and under 

 that name, "iV. Moggridcjii'' (p. 273) will be noted the 

 specific differences by which the two species may be 

 at once distinguished from each other. 



The male of the spider here described has not been 

 yet found. A description is given (p. 276) of a 

 ]nale spider, Nemesia incerta (no doubt closely allied), 

 found by M. Eugene Simon at Digne ; but reasons 

 will be given why it is not probable that this Digne 

 spider should be, as conjectured by M. Simon, the 

 male of the Montpellier species. Whether the N. 

 carminans (Latr.) is the male of N. ccBmentaria (Latr.) 

 or not, is another question, and one surrounded with 

 some obscurity and difficulty. Latreille described N. 

 ccementaria (female) from Montpellier, and N. carminans 

 (male) from Aix in Provence ; the latter being spe- 

 cially characterized by a bifid point to the prolonga- 

 tion of the palpal bulb ; L. Dufour appears subse- 

 quently to have considered N. carminans, Latr. (male) 

 to be the male of N. ccementaria, and Latreille 

 appears to have agreed with L. Dufour upon this, 

 vide Walck. Ins. Apt., i. p. 23G ; but Dufour after- 

 wards {Ann. Gen. Sc. F/i?/8., torn. v. Bruxelles, 1820, 



