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uniformly and much curved, pectinated. In Æ. lineatus © the superior claws 
of the first pair of legs are from the base to near the apex armed with 
about 12 long, strong comb-teeth, and the inferior claw with 3 long teeth. 
On the 4" pair the teeth are less numerous, 7 or 8 on the superior claws, 
while the inferior claw seems to be without teeth. The female’s palpal claw 
is also short, very strong, and provided with about 9 coarse teeth. FE. 
cinnaberinus 5 has about 16 (and 14) teeth on the superior claws, and 2 
on the inferior. 
The Aranea nigra of PETAGNA 1), to which WALCKENAER has given 
the name Chersis dubius ?) is most certainly an Æresus (perhaps but a va- 
riety of Æ. cinnaberinus) and not a Chersis (Palpimanus). 
Sub-fam. I. PALPIMANINÆ. 
Syn.: 1869. Chersidæ CANESTR. et Pav., Aran. Ital, p. 75. 
Of this family only one genus is known, that namely formed by 
L. Durour under the name of Palpimanus. 
Gen. 2. PALPIMANUS Dur. 1820. 
Deriv.: pa/pare, caress, touch; manus, hand. 
Syn.: 1820. Palpimanus Dur., Descr. de six Arachn. nouv., p. 12. 
1825—27. Platyscelum Sav. et Aup., Descr. de l'Égypte, (2 Éd.:) XXII, p. 401. 
1837. Chersis WaLck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 390 (ad max. part.). 
1864. 5 SIM., H. N. d. Araignées, p. 448 (ad max. part.). 
Type: Palpimanus gibbulus Dur. 
Palpimanus is, as may be seen from the synonyms, the oldest name 
of the genus, and there is no plausible reason for abandoning it. That 
certain Attoide also have thicker fore-legs, which appear to serve as organs 
of touch (whence the name Palpimanus), and that SAVIGNY intended to call 
it Chersis ?), can of course be no reason for cashiering the name Palpima- 
1) Spee. Ins. Ulter. Calabriæ, p. 34 (of the Ed. printed "Francofurti et Moguntiæ, 
ITS). 
2) Hist. Nat. d. Ins. Apt., I, p. 392. 
3) Conf. WALck., Ins. Apt., I, p. 393. — Sımon considers that the name Pal- 
pimanus must mean that the palpi resemble hands; but this is not the case: manus 
here signifies the fore-legs, not the palpi. 
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