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CHAPTER I 



THERIDIUM SIMILE C. L. Koch 



Brit. Isl., Eur. (widely), E to S Russ., t Brit. Col.-Wash. 

 Mediterr. 



THERIDIUM (achaearanea) tepidariorum C. L. Koch 

 Cosmopolitan. 



t Icel., Brit. Isl., Eur. (widely, hot- f U.S.A. (widely) & S Can. (indoors in 



houses); W Sib., China. the north). 



Originally tropical. 



THERIDIUM (enoplognatha) thoracicum Hahn 

 Brit. Isl., Eur. (widely), N. Afr. f Oregon, 



THERIDIUM TINCTUM Walck. 



Brit. Isl., Eur. (generally), Cauc; t Wash., Oregon. 



Japan. 



THERIDIUM VARIANS Hahn 



Icel., Brit. Isl., Eur. (generally), N. f Brit. Col.-Wash. 



Afr., W & N Asia E at least to Yenisei. 



theridula gonygaster SIM. {opulenta auctt. eur., nee Walck.) 

 Almost cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



•f France, Corsica (probably not in- Florida, 



troduced from America). 



Afr., Madag.; Japan. W. Ind., C. & S. Amer. 



Nesticidae 



NESTicus CELLULANUS CI. {terrestris Em.) 

 Brit. Isl., Eur. E to C Russ. f NE U.S.A. 



NESTICUS (eidmanella) pallidus Em. 



t England. Brit. Col., entire U.S.A., Nov. Scot., 



Nfld. 

 t Hawaii. C & S Amer. 



Linyphiidae 



agyneta cauta Cambr. 

 Brit. Isl., Eur. (boreoalpine). NE U.S.A., E Can., Nfld. 



