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museau atténué et canaculé". The last of these characters can scarcely be applied 

 to Olpiiim L. K., l)ut very well to Garypus L. K.; if Minniza Sim. in this respect is 

 similar to Ihe laller, I had no occasion to examine. I think thai Ihe margin 

 referred to in the remark about Minniza "oculis al) margine cephalothoracis baud 

 separatis" is the lateral margin of the head; for if the front margin is meant, the 

 two statements about this genus do not agree with each other. The two characters 

 taken from Ihe slenderness of the céphalothorax and abdomen, upon which the 

 genus Minniza Sim. is based, seem to me too insufficient. Balzan (1891. 12. pp.501 — 

 502) writes about this genus, which he places between Olpium L. and Ganjpns \j. K. 

 "On me demandera j)ourquoi j'accepte le Minniza, très semblable aux Olpium (les- 

 quels il se distingue par la présence de la ride à la moitié du céphalothorax, ride 

 qui manque aux Olpium, tandis que je fais seulement un sous-genre des Atemnus; 

 cela est que, entre Minniza et Olpium, la difference est bien définie, qu'il y ait des 

 rides, ou non"; I believe that llie above discussion must be based upon a miscon- • 

 ception of Simon, who writes about the type species of this genus (39. p. 14) "baud 

 striatus". This opportunity is taken to correct the above mentioned insignificant 

 mistake in Balzan's important paper, because it might otherwise probably lead to 

 further mistakes, at least authors less acquainted with the literature than f. inst. 

 Ellingsen is (20. p. 161; cf. 71. p. 264). 



Simon has only described a single species of Amhlyolpium Sim. viz. A. Dollfusi 

 Sim., but has referred Olpium longiventer Keys, to this genus (cf. 1899. 15. p. 121 note); 

 the same author has later on (16, p. 519) identified an undescribed species of Gary- 

 pinus Dad. with this Australasian species and Pocock (17. ]). 321) has identified 

 it with one from Funafuti. I had the opportunity of examining both these species 

 in the British Museum, and found in both a short, but well defined cucullus; these 

 facts as well as the variability of the shape of the cucullus taken into consideration, 

 we can scarcely regard Amblynlpium Sim. as a natural genus. 



The genus Garypinus Dad. was established by Daday (1889. 11. p. 179) on 

 account of the structure of the legs; Ellingsen gave later on a further definition of 

 it (1904. 70. p. 5) viz. "4 eyes. Céphalothorax considerably longer than wide, nar- 

 rowing slightly to the fore extremitj', almost truncated in front, one transverse 

 groove, convex and very near to the back margin. The movable finger of the 

 mandibles with a galea. The tergites more or less divided longitudinally. All hairs 

 simple. All the four pair of legs provided with a trochantin and two tarsal articles. 

 The trochanter of the palps pernae-formis. (The two known species have both of 

 them the arolium divided into two branches)." The two species known by the 

 author are G. dimidiatus L. K. and G. Patagonicus Ell.; in this paper will a single 

 new species G. nobilis n. sp. be described; two new species have besides been 

 studied, namely one from Hawaii with the trochantin as long as one third of the 

 whole femur of the first pair of legs in similarity to the other three species, and 

 one from Funafuti with the trochantin about half as long as the femur. Olpium 

 hrevifemoratnm Balz. (46. p. 440) shows a similar structure of the femur of the first 



