188 T. THORELL, 
ference in the form of the claws between any of these Citigradæ on the 
one side and the Philodromine and Attoide on the other is still greater. 
Simon divides his ”Lycosiformes” into 3 tribus, Herséliens, Lycosiens, 
and Dolomédiens. The first of these answers to our Hersilioide, which ap- 
pear to us to belong to the sub-order Tubitelarie, and not to the Citigradze. 
The other two, which are distinguished, the ”Zycosiens” by having "yeux 
inégaux, corps court et ramassé, membres robustes et courts", whereas the 
" Dolomédiens" have "yeux peu inégaux, corps étroit et allongé, membres 
fins, longs et allongés", I cannot consider even as sub-families, for these 
characteristics do not appear to me to hold good: Dolomedes for example 
cannot surely be said to have a slenderer body and finer extremities than e. g. 
Lycosa, Oxyopes LATR. on the other hand is already by the position of the 
eyes so distinctly separated from other Citigrade, that that genus may rea- 
sonably be considered as the type of a separate family. 
We accordingly divide the European Citigrade into two families, 
Lycosoide and Oxyopoide, in the following manner: 
1. Oculi in series transversas tres vel duas dispositi: oculi 4 posteriores in tra- 
pezium postice latius, vel in lineam fortiter recurvam dispositi. I. Lycosoide. 
bo 
Oculi in series transversas quattuor vel tres dispositi; oculi 4 posteriores in 
trapezium postice angustius vel in seriem proeurvam dispositi. IL Oxyopoide. 
Fam. I. LYCOSOIDA. 
Syn.: 1833. Lycosides Sunp., Consp. Arachn., p. 23 (ad max. part.). 
In this family we include all genera belonging to the Citigrade, with 
the exception of Oxyopes LATR. or Sphasus WALCK. and Pasithea BLACKW. 
or Peucetia NoB. — The claws in this family are very nearly similar to 
those of the Agalenoide: the superior tarsal claws are strong, broad at the 
base, pectinated; the inferior claw is bent suddenly downwards, but, unlike what 
is usually the case with the Agalenoide, is generally toothless; occasionally 
it is furnished with one or two pointed teeth. The palpal claw of the 
female is also pectinated, but has usually only a few teeth. In c? of many 
species, especially within the genera Lycosa and Trochosa, the palpus is, 
as OnrERT has shown 1), provided at the extremity with an appendage more 
or less resembling a claw, which however can only be considered as a 
coarse spine, in as much as that it is not, like a real claw, broader at 
1) Klauenbild. d. Preuss. Spinn., p. 12. 
