On EUROPEAN SPIDERS. d 
1818. Micrommata Larm., in Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., 2° Éd., XX (ad part.; sec. 
WALCK.). 
11838. Ocypete C. Kocu, Die Arachn., IV, (ad part.:) p. 83. 
1864. Sparassus [Sparassa] Sım., H. N. d. Araignées, p. 396 (ad partem). 
Type: Sparassus Argelasii WALCK. 
The species we have proposed as type for this new genus has, it 
appears to us, been referred by C. Koch to his Ocypete (Olios WALCK., 
Heteropoda (LATR.) NOB.) and described under the appellation of O. tersa 
(loc. eit), although it has by all other writers, who have treated on it, been 
considered as a Micrommata or Sparassus. From Micrommata, as that ge- 
nus has been limited by us, it differs in the strongly marked laterigrade 
position of the legs, in its more dense scopulæ, in the closer vicinity to 
each other of the two rows of eyes, etc. The eyes are moreover larger, 
and the anterior central eyes at least as large as the anterior lateral 
ones. From the next following genus, Heteropoda, it differs in that the 
anterior row of eyes is curved backward instead of being straight or curved 
somewhat forward. For this genus we have assumed the name Sparassus, 
which has previously been synonymous with Micrommata, and under which 
the typical species was first described. 
In Sparassus Argelasü the tarsal claws are very long and slender 
(somewhat longer still than in Mierommata), straight, only a little sinuated 
towards the middle, and with the extremity turned down into a hook. The 
teeth are short, blunt and pretty close together, gradually longer towards 
the extremity of the claw, their points forming an almost straight line; they 
are about 16 in number on the inner, and a couple less on the outer claw. 
The females palpal claw has about 8 tolerably strong, close-set comb-teeth, 
gradually increasing in length. The hairs in the thick claw-brushes are 
long and fine, with the extremity compressed, somewhat dilated, and bifid. 
[Gen. 3. HETEROPODA (LarR. 1804. 
Deriv.: &regorovs, with dissimilar feet (£regos, other; zrovc, foot). 
Syn.: 1804. Heteropoda Larr., in Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., XXIV, p. 135 (ad partem). 
1805. Thomisus Warck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 28 (ad part.: ”8° Fam. Les Robustes, 
Robuste’’). 
1830. Sparassus 1D., Faune Franç., Arachn., p. 102 (ad partem). 
1833. Sarotes Sunp., Consp. Arachn., p. 28 (ad partem). 
11831. Ocypete C. Kocu, Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst., 1, p. 27 (ad max part.). 
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