ON EUROPEAN SPIDERS. 197 
but also by its long, slender maxillæ dilated at the base, ete. The supe- 
rior spinners are distinctly longer than the inferior. The claws are more 
powerful than in the genus Oxyopes: the superior tarsal claws have only 
about 7 long, strong, pointed comb-teeth, and the inferior has three, of 
which the outermost two are long and curved. — Of this handsome spider, 
which has been found in Algeria and Spain, I am acquainted only with 
the male, of which Mr. SIMON kindly sent me a specimen. The name Pa- 
sithea being already appropriated, I have substituted a new (vid. p. 36, 37). 
Gen. 2. OXYOPES Larm. 1804. 
Deriv.: 0&vorrjs, sharp-eyed (dEvs, sharp; aw, eye). 
Syn.: 1804. Oxyopes Larr., in Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., XXIV, p. 135. 
1805. Sphasus Warck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 19. 
1861. n WzsTR., Aran. Suec., p. 538. 
1861. 5 BLACKW., Spid. of Gr. Brit., I, p. 43. 
1864. Oxyopes [Oxyopa] Srw., H. N. d. Araignées, p. 386. 
Type: Oxyopes variegatus LATR. 
On the upper tarsal claws of O. variegatus I have counted, on the 
outer about 17, and on the inner about 14, long, fine, close, parallel comb- 
teeth; the inferior claw terminates in a long, fine, straight point, and has 
two fine, long, curved teeth at the base. The palpal claw is small, with 
10 close-set, fine comb-teeth. O. italicus has but about 10 teeth on the su- 
perior tarsal claws; on the inferior claw it has two powerful, curved teeth, 
and on the palpal claw about 8 long teeth. 
The Brazilian genus Jdiops PERTY 1) is by WALCKENAER ?) taken up 
as synonymous with Sphasus or Omwopes: it has, it is true, a certain re- 
semblance to that genus in the position of the eyes; but the direction of 
the mandibular claw, which is articulated longitudinally, as in the Zerri- 
telarie, appears to us to show, that Zdiops belongs to that sub-order, to which 
it is also referred by Perry. The species described by him, 7. fusca ?), 
shows in the form of the male's palpi an evident analogy with the genus Acti- 
nopus PERTY among the Zheraphosoide, from which genus Jdiops in other 
respects would seem to be widely separated. The form of its cephalothorax 
displays some resemblance to that of Filistata LATR. 
1) Delect. Anim. Art. Bras., p. 197. 
2) Hist. Nat. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 379. 
3) Delect. Anim. Art. Bras., p. 198, Pl. XXXIX, fig. 5. 
