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~ (2) D. nocturnus, Linn. 
(3) D. gnaphosus, Walck. (esp. inédite). 
(4) D. rubrens, Walck. (esp. inédite). 
(5) D. fulgens, Walck. 
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(6) D. vasifer, Bosc (Ar. turcica), Carolina, p- 5, pl. iv. 
fig. 2, MSS. 
(7) D. viridissimus, Walck. Faun. Par. t. ii. p. 212. no. 52. 
So far as I can make out, there was no selection of any 
type nor any further breaking up of the genus between 1805 
aud 1810, when Latreille definitely selected D. lucifugus, 
Walck., as the type. Simon (Hist. Nat. Ar. i. p. 383) 
attributes lucifuga to Latreille, though I am unable at present 
to find any grounds for this attitude; while Thorell quotes 
quadripunctatus, Linn., as the type 
Type, Drassus lucifugus (Walck.), 1802.—Europe. 
AcELENA, Walckenaer, Tableau, p. 51 (1805). 
Two species were originally referred to this genus :— 
(1) A. labyrinthica, Fabr.; (2) A. nevia, Wik. 
These species have never been referred to any other genus, 
though Latreille, in 1810, referred back the genera Nyssus 
and Agelena to Aranea, and selected A. domestica, Fabr., 
as the type of the latter, which, of course, at that date he 
had no power to do, having already limited Aranea to three 
species, which did not include domestica. 
In 1869-70 Thorell selected the first as the type of the 
genus, which is also quoted by Simon (Hist. Nat. Ar. 2, i, 
p. 258, 1898). 
Type, Agelena labyrinthica (Clerck), 1757.—Europe. 
Nyssus, Walckenaer, Tableau, p. 52 (1805). 
The only species referred to this genus is N. coloripes, 
Walck., New Holland or Notasia. Of this Simon says 
(Hist. Nat. Ar. 2, t. u. p. 259, 1898, nota) that it is im- 
possible to identify it with any certainty. 
Type, Nyssus coluripes, Walckenaer, 1805.—New Holland, 
Errrra, Walckenaer, Tableau, p. 53 (1805). 
Sixty-four species were originally included in this genus. 
It was, so far as I can find, first limited by Audouin in 
Savigny’s Hist. Egypte, ed. 1. 1826 (sec. Sherborn, P. Z. 8. 
1897), when he withdrew Epeira sericea under his new genus 
Argyope (not Argiope, as in ed. 2, sec. Thorell and Simon), 
p- 121, to two species—. apoclisa and HE. umbratica, p. 128, 
