of the Genera of the Aranea\ 59 



with tlie holoscricea, De Geer, quoted by Walckeiiaer, for 

 De Goer gives holoseri'cea, Liim., as a synonym of the species 

 figured hy himself. 



80 tiiat LatreiUe's action is in reality a selection of species 

 (6) as the type, with a correctional reference to the earliest 

 author of the name holoscricea. 



lioth Thorell and Simon, however, have come to the con- 

 clusion that the species figured by De Geer is not holoscricea, 

 Linn,, hut that De Geer's s\)eciQS=j>hra^mitts, C. Koch, and 

 \j'\nuxns^>=panidul(i, Clerck. 



This conclusion, however, cannot affect Latreille's selection; 

 it merely settles that phragmitis, C. Koch, is the type, and 

 not ;/«//i't/«/a, Clerck, as selected bv Simon (Hist. Nat. Ar. 

 ii. 2, p. 85, 1897). 



Type, CluhioTia hohsericia, De Geer =phrogmitis, C. L. 

 Koch. 



Tegenaria, Latreille, 1804, Nouv. Diet, xxiv, p. 134, col. 1, 

 line 49. 



Five species were originally included, namely " Les Tapi- 

 formes," Walck. Faun. Par. p. 215 : — 



(1) Aranea domestica, Fabr. p. 412. 21 ; Clerck, p. 1Q, pi. ij. 

 fig. 9 ; (2) A.civilis; (3) xi. ag rest is, A\bin ; (4) A. murina ; 

 (5) A. labirinthica, Fabr. p. 417. 34; Sch. Icon. pi. xix. 

 fig. 8; Albin, pi. xvii. fig. 83. 



A. labirinthica was taken out under Agelena, Walck. 

 Tableau, p. 51 (1805). Araneus domesticiis, Clerck, was 

 selected by C. Koch in 1837 in the ' Uebersicht,' p. 13, as the 

 type of his new genus Philoica. 



Latreille did not in 1810 select any species as the type of 

 Tegenaria, but he selected Aranea domestica, Fabr. = J<3- 

 inestica, Clerck, as the type of Aranea, in 1810, without 

 effect, however, for he had previously limited the genus 

 Aranea to one species — Araneus diadematus, Clerck. 



In 1837, however, a little further down p. 13 of the 

 * Uebersicht,' C. Koch selected A. domesticus, Linn., as the 

 type of Tegenaria. 



These are definite selections; and if A. domesticus, Liim. 

 =^A. domesticus, Clerck, then I'hiloicais simply synonymous 

 with Tegenaria, and can have no separate species as the type. 



But under domesticus, Clerck, two species are undoubtedly 

 involved — {l)=ferruginea, Panzer, {2) = I)erhami, Scop. 

 The first is obviously represented in the full figure in Clerck's 

 work ou j)l. ii. fig. 9. The second is represented by the 

 palpus of the nvdc figured on the same, plate. 



