1896.] SPtDBnB raoM; tHB toWEit amadous. . 741 



iv. broad, spatidiform. Habits arboreal; forming silken cylhiders 

 in hollow trees or amongst foliage. 



AviouLAEiA AViouLARiA (Linii.), 1758. (Plate XXXIII. figs. 10, 

 11 ; Plate XXXIV. fig. 19 ; and Plate XXXV. fig. 13.) 



Probable synonyms. 



1746. Aranea avicularia, Linn., Kleemann's Supplement to 

 Kosel's Iconographie, i., pis. xi., xii. 



1758. Aranea avicularia, Linn. ^ , Sysfc. Nat. ed. x. i. p. 622. 



1764. Aranea avicularia, Linn. Mus. Ludovicse UlricaB, p. 428 : 

 based on figures in Madame Merian, oj). cit. 



1767. Aranea avicularia, Linn., Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 1034. 



1778. ' Aranea vestiaria, DeGeer, Memoires, torn. vii. p. 313, 

 pi. xxxviii. fig. 8. 



1793. Aranea avicularia, Liun., Fabricius, Ent. System, ii. 

 p. 424. 



1804. Mygale avicularia, LatreiOe, Hist. Nat. d. Crust, vii. 

 p. 152, pi. G2. 1. 



1805. Mygale avicularia, Walckenaer, Tabl. d. Aran. p. 4. 



1806. Mygale avicularia, LatreUle, Genera Crust, i. p. 82. 

 1820. Mygale avicularia, liahn, Monograpbie der Spinnen, pi. i. 



fig. 3. 



1837. Mygale auicuZaWa, Walckenaer, Hist. Nat. d. Ins., Apt. i. 

 p. 217. 



1842. Mygale avicularia, Lucas, Hist. Nat. Crust. &c. i. p. 335. 



1848. Mygale testacea, 0. K., d , Die Arachniden, ix. p. 45, 

 pi. ccciii. fig. 719 ^ 



1848. Mygale scoparia, C. K., ? , Die Arachniden, ix. p. 54, 

 pi. cccvi. fig. 725 '. 



1871. Avicularia vestiaria, DeGeer, Ausserer, Verhandlungen 

 &c., Wien, 1871, p. 201. 



1892. Avicularia avicularia (Linn.), Simon, Hist. Nat. Araign. 

 i. p. 171. 



Atioulakia AVIOULAEIA (Linn.). 



?. Hah. Para. 



dolour. — Carapace mahogany-brown, clothed with converging 

 lines of short grey-green hairs^ Sternum, coxa of pedipalp, and 

 legs velvety black ; inner margin of former fringed with fiery-red 

 hairs. Abdomen and legs clothed with black hairs beneath, 

 becoming rufous above ; third and fourth pairs clothed with long, 



^ The name vestiaria, was evidently not intended by DeGeer as a specific 

 name, but was only used as a term in tbe description. Ausseror, however, 

 did not notice this and regarded it as a specific name, although tbe name 

 avicularia in any case has priority. Perhaps Ausserer considered it unadvisable 

 to have both generic and specific name the same, and the legitimacy of this 

 combination in practical nomenclature is still a matter of disputation amongst 

 scients. 



^ This is possibly drawn from a faded specimen of A. avicularia, for Koch 

 remarks that the figure is drawn from an old specimen. 



' This figure is certainly similar in coloration to numbers of young Avicularia 

 taken by myself in the neighbourhood of Para. 



