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Variety of L. tredecim-guttatus (Rossi) ? According to Thorell 

 this belongs to the genus Lithyphantes. 



Latrodectus menavodi Vinson, 1863. 



Avaneides Reunion, etc. p. 122, pi. viii. fig. 5. Hah. Mada- 

 gascar. — This form may be regarded as a sub-species, or local 

 race. 



Latrodectus oculatus Walck., 1837. 



Insectes Apteres, i. p. 645. Hab. Alexandria. — A variety of 

 L. tredecim-guttatus (Rossi). 



Latrodectus ornatus Lucas, 1845. 



Histoire d'Algerie, p. 233, pi. 14. fig. 8. Hah. Algeria.--^ 

 According to Thorell it belongs to the genus Lithyphantes. 



Latrodectus pallidus 0. P. Oambr., 1872. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1872, p. 287 ( $ ). Hah. Plains of 

 Jordan [O.P. C.)\ Bushire, Persian Gulf [Kurrachee Museum). — 

 The two females from the Kurrachee Museum are undoubtedly 

 identical with L. jmUidics 0. P. 0. The dull yellow colour of the 

 abdomen (which is almost entirely devoid of hairs), with the 

 slashed pattern on the sides and the conspicuousness of the foiu" 

 impressed dots on the anterior dorsal area, renders it easily to be 

 recognized fr-om any other form. The posterior row of eyes is 

 almost oi- quite straight, and the lateral anteriors are nearer the 

 centrals than these are to each other. 



Latrodectus perfidus Walck., 1837. 



Insectes Apteres, i. p. 647. Hab. Georgia. — Probably L. mac- 

 tans. 



'Latrodectus quinqueguttatus Krynicki, 1837. 



Bull. Soc. Imp. ISTat. Moscou, p. 75, tab. vi. fig. 2. Hah. S. 

 Russia. 



Latrodectus scelio Thorell, 1870. 



Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. 1870, no. 4, p. 370. L. 

 Koch, Araneiden Australiens, 1871, p. 279. E. Simon, Mem. 

 Soc. Zool. Fr. X. p. 252, 1897. Hab. New Caledonia {Frangois) ; 

 Muscat, Kui-i'achee ; and Noi-th Guzerath, Oenti'al Asia (vai-, 

 indica Sim.). — This form is undoubtedly identical with hasseltii 

 Thor., the latter name taking priority. 



Latrodectus schuchii (0. L. Koch), 1836. 



Die Arachniden, iii. p. 10, fig. 137. Hah. Greece. Sub i¥eia. — 

 Thorell, Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Hand. Band xiii. no. 5, p. 68. 

 E. Simon, Bidl. Soc. Zool. Fr. ix. 1884, p. 21, note. Pavesi, Ann. 

 Mus. Genova, xv. p. 333 (1880), Tunis. E. Simon, Arach. France, 

 vol. V. p. 179 (1881), note. 



I do not know this species. A male and two females, which 



