114 T. THORELL, #* 
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does not even belong to.the family before us. BLACKWALL has. proposed . 
a separate family for it, ut he calls GEcobüdce?), and which we also | bs 
have adopted; but as it requires a new name; we call the family Omanoidee 
and the species in question Omanus?) navus. (Conf. p. 44 above). +... 
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Fam. IL HERSILIOIDE. =~ - va 
The genus Hersilia, which was formed (1825— —27) by BAYIGNY a 
AUDOUIN in "Descr. d. l'Égypte” (T. XXII, p. 317 -0f the 2" Edit.) i 
as the reader, from the few details above ‚given (p. 109) under. the, head 
the family Bb silioide, is probably already aware, so peculiar, as Beauly ? 
to admit of being med with any of the other families that are referred. te 
the Tubitelarie. By SAVIGNY and AvbOUIN Hersilia was placed between 
the genera Arachne (Nyssus WALCK.) and Ærigone. WA ALCKENAER plages" 
this genus between Ctenus and Sphasus, and. refers it to his " Coureuses” 
or LATREILLES Citigrade, on account of a certain similarity, in the position 
of the eyes, to Dolomedes and Sphasus 5). It has the Same systematic po- 
sition in the works of Lucas — who nevertheless has remarked that, in 
his opinion, it belongs to another "section" or ought to form a new one 5 — 
as also in SIMON, who formed for it a "tribus", ”Herseliens” in the family 
" Lycosiformes" 5). Ducks ©) reckoned Hersilia to his "Micrognathes "or 
" Scythodés", SUNDEVALL to his Drassides, i. e. our Tubitelarie ),. C. Koch 
to the family Agelenides among these 5). It seems to me that the Hersili- 
cide stand nearest to the Agalenoide, with which they agree in the struc- 
ture of the spinning organs (especially in the spinning T es appearing not 
only on the extremity but along the underside of the superior spinners), 
and the Urocteoide, which they also resemble in the structure of the parts 
of the mouth: in that respect they also approximate to thé other pom 
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1) Œcobius navus was first described in 1859, in "Descr. of newly disc. spid. 
capt. by J. Y. Johnson” (Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 3 Ser., IV, p. 258); the family 
Œcobiidæ was formed in 1862, in "Descr. of newly dise. spid. from the Isl. of 
Madeira (ibid., 3 Ser., IX, p. 382). : 
2) Omanus, mythol. prop. name. 
3) Mém. s. une nouv. Classif. d. Aran., p. 438; — Hist. Nat. d. Ins. Apt., I, 
p. 202 and 372 
4) Observ. sur les Aran. du genre Hersilia, p. 4. a 
5) Hist. Nat. d. Araignées, p. 343. 6) Observ. sur les Aran., p. 160. 
7) Consp. Arachn., p. 22. 
8) Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst., 1, p. 14; ibid., 5, p. 25. 
