of the Genera of the Aranex. 485, 
nor L. saccata, then L. lugubris, Walck., is the type, since 
this was the last species left in by C. L. Koch in 1848. 
If the question be settled by reference to the first authority 
who came to some definite conclusion on the point—since 
we are confronted by three authors, Thorell, Simon, and 
Dahl, each of whom furnishes us with a different type species 
—we must naturally take Thorell’s decision made in 1869- 
70, when he gives Lycosa lugubris, Walck., as the type. 
Personally I adhere to my own conclusion (Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist. (7) vii., Jan. 1901), reached by a rigid application 
_ of rules, see Case 1 above, which leaves us with L. lugubris 
as the type. 
Type, Lycosa lugubris (Walck.), 1802. 
Gnapnosa, Latreille, 1804, Nouv. Dict. xxiv. p. 134. 
Latreille writes thus: “ D. A. (diagnosis) —(Gnaphosa)— 
Les Celluliformes de Walck.” 
In the note below he adds: “ la subdivision a de coupe D 
une partie des araignées tisserands & pattes moyennes.”’ 
In his table in Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. vol. iii. p. 60, Latreiile. 
says: “Les Celluliformes—répondent 4 mes tapissiéres 
Diy GAs’ 7? 
On page 54 of the same work we find under Tapissiéres 
Div. 4***, Ar. relucens, Latr., and this division is a part of 
the “ octonoculées tisserands & pattes moyennes.” 
Now the Celluliformes de Walck. comprise nocturna, luci- 
Juya, lapidosa, and fulgens, Wks. 
{f we turn to Hist. Crust. Ins. vol. vii. p. 125, we find the 
same four species included, all of them forming a part of the 
“‘ tisserands a pattes moyennes,” with the addition of Ar. 
melanogaster, Latr., and six other species. One cannot, 
however, admit this later addition to the species originally 
included in the genus (for, see ‘ Index Animalium,’ Davies 
Sherborn, MS.,this volume appeared after Nouv. Dict. xxiv.), 
and vol. vii. simply proves that the four species mentioned 
above constitute “ une partie des araignées tisserands a pattes 
moyennes.”’ 
There are three courses open to us :— 
(1) If we take the species mentioned on page 54, Hist. 
Nat. Crust. Ins. vol. i1., only, under Div. 4***, then 
Ar. relucens, Latr. (=fulgens, Wlk.), is the type of 
the genus. 
(2) If we include those under Les Celluliformes and the 
one quoted on page 54, we have the same four species, 
for relucens=fulgens, W\k. 
(3) So too, of course, if we include Les Celluliformes alone, 
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