176 OX NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNIDA. 



it until now. M. Simon (Arachn. de France, supra cit.) 

 includes it as a synonym of Argus pagans, Savigny, described 

 and figured in Savigny's great work on Egypt. (Vide Expli- 

 cation des Planches, Vol. I. part 4 plate I. of that work ; by V. 

 Audouin date about A. n., 1826.) This description is very 

 indefinite and might quite well apply to several other species 

 of the genus, while the figures (PI. i) could not possibly 

 apply to E. spinosa, Cambr., the critical portions of the palpi 

 being totally distinct. Baron Walckenaer (Ins. Apt. II., 

 p. 345, 1837) appears to have taken it for granted that the 

 spider he records there as E. pagans Aud.-Sav. (and which 

 Audouin says has been again found by Savigny in the 

 environs of Paris on the barriers of the little park of 

 Versailles) was identical with Savigny's species, but this 

 appears quite untenable in the face of Savigny's figures. 

 What Savigny's spider may have been it is probably 

 impossible to say ; the figures look most like E. longipalpis, 

 Sund. E. spinosa, Cambr., agrees exactly with the French 

 examples sent to me by M. Simon, and which were of a species, 

 according to him, found in numerous localities in France. It 

 is probably identical with En'gone pagans, Kulczynski, and, if 

 so, this latter author would also appear to have, equally with 

 M. Simon, overlooked the evidence of the strikingly different 

 form of Savigny's E. pagans, furnished by Savigny's figures 

 (I.e. supra). The figure given by Kulczynski of the female is 

 different from that which I found in Egypt ; while the 

 Yorkshire examples resemble it. The female described by 

 Walckenaer (I.e.) is evidently that of another group of spiders 

 altogether; he says : " Le palpe defemelle termini par un onght 

 pectine" which is certainly not true of an Erigone. 



On every account this addition to our List of British 

 Spiders is of great interest. 



Epigone longipalpis, Sund. 



Adult males sent to me in 1906 from Kirkby (Lancashire) 

 and from Weston-super-Mare by the Rev. J. H. Bloom; and 



