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it must be owned, that it deviates pretty considerably from the typical spe- 
cies of that genus. On the other hand Ther. letum WESTR. and Ther. acu- 
minatum LUCAS?) belong to Euryopis, as I place the limits of that genus 
(vid. p. 77). Of the last-named species, which was discovered by Lucas 
in Algeria, and which, as far as I am aware, has never yet been acknow- 
ledged as belonging to the fauna of Europe, I found several specimens, 
both 5 and 9, at Livorno (Leghorn) in the summer of 1853. 
In E. flavo-maculata (c?) the superior tarsal claws (of the 1" pair 
of legs) are large, rather strong, but not broad towards their base, uni- 
formly and almost semicircularly curved, with about 6 coarse, pointed comb- 
teeth, issuing from the side of the claw, from its base to the vicinity of 
its apex: their extremities form (together with that of the claw itself) an 
almost straight line; the inferior claw is small, coarse, with two small and 
very close-set, blunt teeth. The claw of the female's palpus is according 
to OHLERT ?) strong, with 5 straight long teeth. 
Gen. 18. ASAGENA Suwp. 1833. 
Deriv.: & priv.; oaynvn, net; "reti carens": SUND. 
Syn.: 1801. Phalangium PAxz., Faun. Ins. Germ., (ad part.:) 78, 21. 
1805. Theridium Warck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 72 ("6* Fam. Les Cachées, Absconditæ " 
ad part.). 
1832. Drassus SUND., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. f. 1831, p. 132 (ad 
partem). 
1833. Asagena ID., Consp. Arachn., p. 19. 
1856. Steatoda THor., Rec. crit., p. 108 (ad partem). 
1861. Theridium Westr., Aran. Suec., p. 151 (ad partem). 
1864. 5 Brackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 175 (ad partem). 
1864. Asagena Srw., H. N. d. Araignées, p. 162 (ad partem). 
1867. - Onr., Aran. d. Prov. Preuss., p. 33, 41. 
1869. H MENGE, Preuss. Spinn., III, p. 256. 
Type: Asagena phalerata (PANZ.). 
SUNDEVALL included this genus in his Drassides (Tubitelarie NOB.), 
among which analogous forms occur, e. g. the genus Titanaca NOB. among 
the Amaurobiine. By C. KocH it was first curiously enough aggregated to 
his " Agelenides” (Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst., 1, p. 13), but afterwards rightly 
to the "'Theridides". — WESTRING, BLACKWALL and others suffer it to re- 
1) Explor. de l'Algérie, Arachn., p. 268, Pl. 17, fig. 10. 
2) Klauenbild. d. Preuss. Spinn., p. 9. 
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