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Sub-fam. I. EPEIRINZE. 
Syn.: 1841. Epeiridæ BLackw., The differ. in the numb. of eyes etc., p 668. 
1866. Epeiridee MENGE + Tetragnathidæ ID., Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 40, 90. 
This sub-family includes all the genuine European Epeiroids, i. e. those 
that are destitute of infra-mamillary organ and calamistrum. The Epeirinæ 
belonging to the fauna of Europe may, we think, be united under the genera 
Argiope, Epeira, Cyrtophora, Singa, Cercidia, Zilla, Meta and Tetragnatha, 
all which, with the exception of the last, constitute portions of the old 
Walckenaerian genus Epeira. 
Gen. 1. ARGIOPE Sav. et Aup. 1825—7. 
Deriv.: '40oycóz, mythol. proper name. 
Syn.: 1825—7. Argiope Sav. et Aup., in Descript. de l'Égypte, (2:e Ed.:) XXII, p. 328. 
1829. Argyopes LaTR., in Cuv., Règne Anim., Nouv. Éd Av: p. 528. 
1831. Argyope ID., Cours d'Entomol., p. 529. 
1835. Miranda C. Kocu, zm HERR.-SCHEFF., Deutschl. Ins., 128, 14. 
1839. Nephila rp., Die Arachn., V, (ad pariem:) p. 33. 
1864. Argyopes Srw., Hist. Nat. d. Araignées, p. 281 (ad max. partem). 
1864. Nephila 1p., ibid., p. 275 (ad partem). 
Type: Argiope lobata (PALLAS). 
We take this genus, which has been separated from WALCKENAER'S 
Epeira by SAVIGNY and AUDOUIN, in its original compass, which indeed seems 
to be the same as that assigned to it by SUNDEVALL!) and KEYSERLING ?), 
whereas some of the species attributed by C. KocH and SIMON to the genus 
Argiope, e. g. A. tridentatus and gonygaster, hardly seem rightly to belong 
to it. SAV. and Aup. include (loc. cit. p. 329) Aranea Brünnichü Scop. (Ar. 
fasciata OLIV.) in Argiope, which is perfectly right. By C. Kocx it was 
first erroneously assigned to Miranda, and afterwards to JVephila LEACH, 
which is not a more fortunate disposition, as the characteristics that mark 
this last genus (the anterior part of the cephalothorax elevated, broad; ma- 
xillæ considerably longer than they are broad, etc.) by no means apply to 
A. Brünnichü?). The genus Nephila must, for the present at least, be re- 
moved from the list of the European genera of spiders. We suspect in fact 
that Epeira ambagiosa WALCK. also is an Argiope. SIMON indeed classes 
it with the genus JVephila (p. 276), and, following WALCKENAER, gives 
1) Consp. Arachn., p. 15. 
2) Beschr. neuer etc. Orbitele, p. 2 (64). 
3) Conf. LEACH, Zool. Mise., II, p. 133; — KEYSERLING, loc. cit. 
