of the Genera of the Avancw. 11 



The name is, liowevor, a iiom. ])ra30cc. by Fabvicius for 

 ]iOj)i(lo|)tera, 1808. Cf. under Lycodia^ 1883. 



'1 jpe, Lycivna spinimana, Suiidevall, 1888. — Sweden. 



Lycodia, Sundevall, Conspectus Araclinidum, p. 22 (1888). 



Tlie autlior refers to tin's genus tlius: — ^^ Li/codia, nob. 

 (Act. Holm. 1882, add. ad Aran.)." Tlie date given is that 

 on whicli the paper was read. The generic name given, 

 however, is Lycana^ not Lycodia^ in Sundevall's reference. 

 Jt. ajijicars from Thorell (Europ. 8i)id. p. 1-41) and from 

 Westring (Aran. Suec. p. 82")) that JSundevall leaves no 

 doubt that the name Lycodia includes all that ihe author 

 intended under Lyavna, and, further, that Sundevall states 

 tliat the name was a typographical error, due to a slip of the 

 pen or to a nnsprint, and that he wished the name IJecaergey 

 Jilackwall, to take its place {cf. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. 1837-40, 

 p. 840). 



I have not been able to examine this work, but the above 

 statement is made by Westring and Thorell, ar.d 1 assume it 

 to be correct. 



Thorell and Westring, followed by other authors, have 

 placed Lycodia as a synonym under Zora, for Ilecaerge was 

 also pr( occupied. 'Ihe question is whether Lycodia is to 

 stand or not. 



]s the name L.ycodia available for any other genus in the 

 future? 'Jhorell, Westring, and other authors evidently 

 think not, for ihey make it a synonym of Zora. But if it 

 cannot be used again, it has already fulfilled the functions of 

 a sound generic name applied under conditions which are 

 valid according to recognized rules of nomenclature. Jf, then, 

 it is a sound generic name there can be no legitimate reason 

 for passing it over. 



The name is a good one, not a mere misprint of Lycivna, 

 It is not evt7i a typcffraphical error in ihe strict sense of the 

 term. (The chances are that tSundevall had the Lycosa-Vike 

 character of the type in his mind and unconsciously wrote a 

 Latin nan;e equivalent to Lycana, which was selected — " oZ» 

 siwilituditienij saltern ocidoruin, cum araneis s. d. lupisy) 

 And it is impossible not to recognize it and restore it to its 

 generic position, with the type of Lyccsna^ Sund., as its 

 representative species. 



Type, Lycodxa spinimana, Sundevall, 1833. — Sweden. 



Steatoda, Sundevall, Conspectus Arachnidum, p. 16 (1833). 

 Four species were originally referred to this genus, but no 



