On EUROPEAN SPIDERS. 3) 
by the mistakes that he not unfrequently commits ). Many names he alters — 
in consequence probably of their, according to his notions, erroneous etymo- 
logy — in a manner which it appears to me difficult to justify. Thus for 
ex. he changes Theridion ov Theridium into Theridio, Erigone to Erygona, 
Neriene to Nerieneus, Textrix to Tectrix, Hersilia to Herselia, and so forth. 
A large number of generie names have their terminations arbitrarily altered: 
many for ex. with the termination es or ws terminate in SIMON'S work in 
a, so that we there read Scytoda, Eresa, Atta, Thomisa, Sparassa, Philo- 
droma, etc. instead of Scytodes, Eresus, Attus, Thomisus, ete. Neither does 
he observe any consistency in this, for he preserves the names Dolomedes, 
Pholcus, Drassus, Uloborus ete. unaltered, nor does he appear to remark, 
that, by making or adopting such changes, he applies names already appro- 
priated to other genera of animals, as for ex. in the case of the names 
Atypa, Myrmecia and Atta. (instead of Atypus WALCK., Myrmecium LATR. ?) 
yeux latéraux de la ligne supérieure sont placés chacun à l'extrémité d'un long pé- 
dicule horizontal"), which cannot be recognized in either of the two species (M. cu- 
cullatus and M. tibialis) which SrwoN looks on as belonging to the sub-genus Vide- 
rius, nor in any other European spider, that I know of. 
1) Omosites (wuoorros, eating raw food, from «óc, raw and orr£oue:, eat) SIMON 
derives from ”owos, méme; ovroc, nourriture." Anyphena (dvvyaivo, unravel a web) 
he derives from ”avvw, tuer; gowos, rouge ou sanglant”; — Theridium (Imoidıov, 
little animal) from "279«, chasse; eo, voir’; — Phrurolithus (goovoéw watch, and 
Actos, stone) from "goso, creuser”, and Aí(9oc; — Erigone ( Hocyovn, mythol. prop. 
name) from ”£ovw défendre; yóvoc, progéniture”; Micryphantes (puxoóc, small, öpavzns, 
weaver) from wexods and “garde, brillant"; JVeriene (prop. name of the wife of 
Mars) from ”vevocs, corde, fil; evy, le soir"; — Meta (Mira, mythol. proper name) 
from "wires, sagesse, prévoyance.” — Uloborus (ovàofóóooc, deadly biting — of 
oùloc fatal, deadly, and Bıßowoxw, eat) is by Suton derived from "4x, broussailles; 
Booóc, qui dévore"; — Argyrodes (doyvoos, silver, &idos, appearance) from deyvoos 
and "oidos, gonflé”; — Singa (Ziyya, geogr. prop. name) from "cv, marque simili- 
tude; y& ou y5j, terre"; Micrathena ("ucxoa, parva, et “Adyva, nomen Græcum Mi- 
nerys": SUNDEV.) from u0x005 and "Seívo aiguillonner"; — Hersilia (proper name of 
Romulus’ Sabine wife) from "£oo:c, action d'enlacer", etc. 
2) LATREILLE formed the genus Myrmecium in 1824 (Notice sur un nouveau 
genre d'Aranéides, p. 23): afterwards, in 1829, he changed the name to Myrmecia 
(in Cuvier's Règne Animal, 2° Edit., p. 261). In consequence of the too great simila- 
rity of the name with that of Myrmecia already employed by FABRICIUS: DALMAN 
(Årsberättelse, 1826, p. 59.) proposed to change Myrmecium to Myrmidea, which 
however to us appears unnecessary. — Myrmecium or Myrmecion is the classical name 
of a species of spider, “formic similis eapite, alvo nigro, guttis albis distinguenti- 
bus": PLIN. Hist. Nat., L. xxix, c. 27. 
