182 T. THORELL, 
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divided, or else to break up Zhomisus ©. KOCH into some few minor ge- 
nera. I, for my part, have preferred the latter alternative. SIMON!) has 
already divided Thomisus C. KOCH, Sım., into 4 "sub-genera", Phlooides, 
Thomisus, Pachyptila and Synema, and the sub-genus Zhomisus again into 
three "groups", Thomisus, Cirrofera (= Platythomisus DOLESCHALL ?) saltem | 
ad partem) and Diana, and has furthermore proposed the new genera Oxy- 
ptila and Phrynoides (Phrynarachne NOB.: vid. sup. p. 37). The last-named 
(exotic) genus appears to me to merit preservation, but the other, European, 
groups, to which he has assigned generic names, I cannot, in the very 
vague limits of Simon’s definitions, accept as genera. 
Li 
Gen. 8. MONJESES x. 
Deriv.: Movatoys, proper name. 
Syn.:41845—41. Monastes Luc., Explor. de l'Algérie, Arachn., p. 192. 
1847. D Warck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., IV, p. 432. 
1838. Xysticus C. Kocn, Die Arachn., IV, (ad part.:) p. 79. 
1864. Monastes Srw., H. N. d. Araignées, p. 418. 
1864. Xysticus ID., ibid., p. 524 (ad partem). 
1868. Thomisus ID., Sur quelques Araignées d'Espagne, p. 284 (ad partem). 
Type: Monwses paradoxus (LUC.). 
The genus Monastes — or Moneses, as I have called it, the name 
Monastes being already appropriated (vid. p. 37) — was formed by Lucas 
for two remarkable Thomisinæ from Algeria, and has lately been increased 
by SIMON with a third and European species, Thomisus Piochardi Sim. from 
Spain. As a fourth species I refer to this genus Xysticus cuneolus C. Koch, 
which also belongs to the Fauna of Europe. SIMON in the latter of his works 
above cited has suppressed this genus and united it with Thomisus, which 
appears to us by no means a happy step. On this subject se farther p. 172. 
The genus Sylvia Nic.*) seems to me, judging from the figures, to 
be nearly related to, perhaps identical with Monwses, although the species 
of that genus are said not to be laterigrade, and to have vertical mandi- 
bles. — Sylvia is the old Linnzean name of a genus of birds. 
In JM. cuneolus the tarsal claws present very nearly the same con- 
struction as in ÂMisumena and Dima; the inner claw has about 12 long, 
1) Hist. Nat. d. Araignées, p. 432. f 
2) Tweede Bijdr. t. de Kenn. d. Arachn. v. d. Ind. Arch., p. 59. 
3) Gray, Hist. fis. e pol. de Chile, Zool., III, p. 465. 
