80 T. "DHOREED; 
soidæ, a wandering spider, whose web however appears to consist merely 
of a few irregular threads, on which it sits with its legs stretched straight 
forwards and backwards, in much the same position as Tetragnatha. — The 
male by his large palpal clava resembles the Hyptiotes paradoxus c. 
The superior tarsal claws are slender, slightly curved, with about 
5 curved saw-teeth between their basis and middle, gradually increasing in 
length (on the 1* pair of legs); the inferior claw is very small, with the 
extremity curved a little outwards, and has two blunt teeth; the female's 
palpus-claw is small, more strongly curved, and has about 6 close-set saw- 
teeth of about the same form as on the superior claws of the tarsi. 
Gen. 4. ARGYRODES Simon. 1864. 
Deriv.: doyvoos, silver; eidos, form, appearance. 
Syn.: 1841. Linyphia Watcx., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., IL, p. 233 (ad part.: »3* Fam. Les 
Epéirides, Epeirides»). 
1864. Argyrodes Sım., H. N. d. Araignées, p. 253 (saltem ad partem). 
Type: Argyrodes Epeire SIMON. 
This genus, formed with good reason by Simon at the expense of 
Linyphia WALCK., is especially remarkable for its living parasitically in 
the webs of larger Æpeiroidæ. Sımon has lately 1) under the name of Argy- 
rodes Epeiræ described a species from Spain, which he considers as new, but 
which certainly is identical with Linyphia argyrodes WALCK., of which I have 
seen specimens from Brazil, and which is also met with in the Ile de la 
Réunion (Bourbon) ?) and probably also in Java?) and in Georgia in North 
America‘). It appears to be as widely geographically distributed as Cyrtophora 
opuntie (DUF.), in the web of which, according to SIMON, it in Spain resides, 
— On this genus see also above p. 48. 
The tarsal claws of A. Epeire are somewhat weak (as in Linyphia) ; 
the two superior differ considerably from each other in size, and are pro- 
vided with 2 or 3 teeth of unequal size, pointing obliquely forward (on 
the 1" pair of legs). The inferior claw is equally large with the greater 
of the superior claws, more powerful, with a long, pointed tooth. The fe- 
male’s tarsal claw is fine and slender, slightly curved, with two teeth of 
different size pointing obliquely forward. 
1) Sur quelques Araignées d'Espagne, p. 281. 
2) Vinson, Aran. d. Iles de la Réun., Maur. et Madag., p. 318. 
3) van HassELT, Notice of Vinson’s Aran. de la Réun. ete., p. 17. 
4) WALCKENAER, Hist. Nat. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 283. 
