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The tarsal claws are small, straight at the base, but towards the 
extremity curved almost to a semicircle, with few teeth. In JM. pulicaria 
the teeth are only 2 in number, very short and blunt; in JM. fulgens they 
are 3, longer, but sparse, thick, and very obtuse. The hairs of the elaw- 
tuft are few, dilated, rounded at the extremity; the whole underside of the 
tarsus is thinly covered with suchlike hairs. 
Under this genus SIMON ?) takes up as synonyms Corinna C. Koch ?) 
and Drassina GRUBE*), both of which appear to me to be very remote 
from it. Drassina is stated to have three claws on the tarsi, and, if this 
be really so, cannot even belong to the family Drassoidz. Corinna would 
seem to stand on the point of transition from the family Drassoide to the 
Myrmecioidæ, to which last the genus is referred by C. KocH: to me 
it appears rather to belong to the former family. L. KocH however has 
not received it among the Drassoide. 
Gen. 10. DRASSUS Warck. (1805). 
Deriv.: dodooouæ, seize, catch. 
Syn.: 1805. Drassus Wazok., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 45 (ad partem). 
1805. Clubiona ID., ibid., p. 41 (ad part.: "5* Fam. Les Furies, Furiæ”). 
1832. Herpylus Hentz, On North Amer. Spid., p. 102 (ad partem). 
1834. Filistata Reuss, Zool. Mise., Arachn., p. 197 (213) (ad partem). 
1837. Drassus C. Kock, Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst., 1, p. 18. 
1851. Drassodes WEksTR., Fórteckn. etc., p. 48. 
1861, 2 ID., Aran. Suec., p. 360. 
1861. Drassus ID., ibid., p. 337. 
1861. * Brackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 104 (ad partem). 
1864. n Sim., H. N. d. Araignées, p. 123. 
1806. " Koch, Die Arachn.-fam. d. Drassiden, p. 2, 76. 
Type: Drassus quadri-punctatus (LINN.). 
In common with L. KocH, we unite WESTRING'S Drassodes with his 
Drassus in one genus, since, as L. Koch has shown, it is not at present 
possible to determine any sure line of separation between them, however 
different in their general appearance the more typical species of these two 
groups may be. It must not however be forgotten, that the form of the 
cocoons in WESTRING'S Drassus and Drassodes is quite different, although of 
course that circumstance alone cannot be considered as possessing any de- 
1) Hist. Nat. d. Araignées, p. 539. 
2) Die Arachn., IX, p. 17 et seq. 
3) Beschr. neuer im Amurlande u. in Ostsibirien gesammelter Aran., p. 15. 
