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Sub-ordo III. TUBITELARIE. 
Syn.: 1817. "Tubitéles" LaTR., inr Cuv., Règne Anim. III, p. 81. 
1893. Textores SUND., Gen. Aran. Suec., p. 10. 
1825. Tubitele LaTm., Fam. Nat. du Règne Anim., p. 314. 
1833. Drassides SUND., Consp. Arachn., p. 17. 
1833. Araneæ Tubitelariæ Perry, Delect. Anim. Art. Bras., p. 192. 
The best way of briefly characterizing the Tubitelariæ is perhaps the 
following: all known spiders, which cannot be classed under any of the other 
sub-orders, belong to this! — Their ordinary form and appearance are too well 
known to need describing here; but within this polymorphous group we meet 
with transition-forms to many different families, not only of Retitelariæ and 
Territelariæ, but also of Laterigrade, Citigrade and Saltigrade — indeed of 
all the other sub-orders, except the Orbitelarie. It is probably impossible 
to mention any sure characteristic, that at once distinguishes these spiders 
from all the other sub-orders, with which they are thus related: I have 
therefore instead of this endeavoured, in the case of each of these latter, 
to indieate such marks of distinction as appear to me decisive of the limits 
between them and the Tubitelariæ, and I refer to what is said on this sub- 
ject under the heads of these sub-orders as well as under the different fa- 
milies of the Tubitelariæ. 
The Tubitelariæ, as we already know, correspond to LATREILLE’S 
Tubitele, but certain of the genera included by us in this division have 
been otherwise classified by other authors. Uroctea is often assigned to 
the Inequitele or Retitelarie, Filistata again to the Territelarie, Zora to 
the Citigrade, ete. To this we shall return in treating of the different fami- 
lies. — The Tubitelariæ seem, as we have also had occasion to observe, 
to be the lowest sub-order among spiders, that in fact, from which the 
others have mediately or immediately been developed. It may be divided 
into several families, whieh do not however all seem to be very sharply de- 
fined. To the usually received three European families, Agalenoide, Drassoide 
and Dysderoide, we add for the European fauna three more, Urocteoide, 
Hersilioide and Filistatoide, which 6 families we characterize as follows: 
I. Stigma tubi traehealis utrinque pone stigma sacci trachealis (pulmonalis) in 
latere ventris non adest. Oculi sæpissime 8. | 
A. Tarsi articulo unguifero aucti. Mamillæ superiores reliquis multo longio- 
res, articulis trinis aut binis: subtus tubulis textoriis præditæ. Series ocu- 
lorum 8 ambe recurve. Tarsorum ungues trini. . . . IL Hersilioide. 
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