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specimens of both sexes of E. antriada Blackw. or Meta Meriance 

 Koch, writes also to me: "E. celata is certainly only a variety of 

 E. antriada: it differs only in the marking of the upper part of the 

 abdomen: no structural difference in the palpi of cf." 



In Meta muraria, according to Menge's figures (loc. cit.), the 

 large, hooked process at the base of the palpus-clava reaches forward 

 up to the apex of the clava; in M. Meriance it does not reach half 

 so far, and stands more boldly out from the clava. In M. Meriance 

 all the metatarsi have 6 (rarely but 5) spines; in M. muraria these 

 spines are, according to Menge, 4 on the anterior and 5 on the 

 posterior metatarsi. — Among the synonyms of his E. antriada, Walcke- 

 naer erroneously classes Z. montana Koch, whereof see preceding 

 article, Z. montana Westr. 



(Pag. 78.) 2. M. Menardi [ = Meta Menardi (Latr.) 1804]. 



Syn.: 1804. Aranea Menardi Latr., H. N. d. Crust, et d. Ins., VTJ, p. 266. 

 ?1804. „ novem-maculata Panz., Syst. Nom. , p. 244. (Schjeff., Ic. 



Ins. Katisb., II, Tab. CLVIII, fig. 6. 



1805. Epeira fusca Walck., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 63. 



1806. „ MENARDI Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins., I, p. 108. 



1836. Meta fusca C. Koch, in Herr.-Sch^ff., Deutschl. Ins., 134, 12, 13. 

 1856. „ menardi Thor., Eec. crit., p. 98. 



1864. Epeira FUSCA Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 349, PI. XXVI, fig. 252. 



This species has by foreign arachnologists been generally con- 

 sidered as identical with Aranea fusca DeGeer, and accordingly 

 goes usually under the name of Epeira or Meta fusca. Both Sun- 

 devall and Westring have however long since referred Aranea fusca 

 to the spider described by C. Koch as Meta Meriance (Scop.), and 

 that this view is correct, I already in 1856 (loc. cit.) endeavoured 

 to prove. Such expressions in De Geer's description , as e. g. that 

 the abdomen is "parseme d'un grand nombre de taches et de nuances 

 noirs velues ," will evidently not suit Epeira Menardi Latr. , but apply 

 very well to M. Meriance {Ep. antriada Walck.). For further in- 

 formation on this head we refer to Rec. crit., p. 98. — Bockh's ') 

 conjecture, that Meta muraria C. Koch is synonymous with this 

 species, is of course wrong. 



1) v. Erauenfeld and Bockh , Ueber nnterirdisch lebenden Fische u. Spinnen 

 (Verhandl. d. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. in Wien, XII (1862)), p. 35. 



