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(Pag. 80.) 3. M. segmentata [ = Meta segmentata (Clerck) 1757]. 

 Var. a (forma principalis): 



Syn.: 1757. Akanecs segmentatus Clerck, Sv. Spindl. , p. 45, PI. 2, tab. 6. 

 1758. Aranea reticulata Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, I, p. 619. 

 ? 1781. ,, ANGULATA Schrank , Enum. Ins. Austria, p. 527. 

 1787. ,, senoculata Cirill., Ent. Neap. Spec. I, Tav. VIII, fig. 7, 



(sec. Canestrini). 

 1802. ,, inclinata Walck., Faune Par., II, p. 201. 

 1805. Epeira „ id., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 62. 



1826. ,, VARIEGATA Risso, H. N. d. princ. prod. d. l'Eur. merid., 



V, p. 170. 



1839. ZlLLA reticulata C. Koch, Die Arachn., VI, p. 142, Taf. CCXIV, 



figg. 532, 533. 



1851. Epeira segmentata Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 35. 

 1856. Meta „ Thor., Rec. crit., p. 25. 



1864. Epeira inclinata Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., n, p. 354, PI. XXVI, 



fig. 255. 



1867. Meta segmentata Menge, Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 86, PI. 14, tab. 24. 



Var. ,3, Mengei: 



1861. META ALBIMACULA Westr., Aran. Suec, p. 82. 



1870. Epeira Mengei Blackw., Descr. of a new spec, of Epeira, in Ann. 



and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 4 Ser., IV (Dec. 1869). 



Westring's M '. albimacula , or Epeira Mengei Blackw., is by no 

 means the same as Zilla albimacula C. Koch (= Epeira diodia Walck., 

 to which we shall hereafter return, when we come to treat of Epeira 

 albimacula Blackw.). It appears to me to be merely a smaller race 

 of M. segmentata ') , coming to maturity already in the beginning of 

 the summer, and thus much earlier than the "forma principalis" 

 (Conf. Westring and Blackw., locis cit.). The female, according to 

 Westring himself, can only be distinguished by its smaller size: 

 the male is said to be distinguished by the presence of perpendicular 

 hairs under the anterior metatarsi, which are absent in M. segmen- 

 tata d\ the legs of which are "toti colore rubicundo tincti," whereas 

 in M. albimacula Westr. their colour is "sordide pallescens." But 

 these differences appear to me not to be constant: in many male 

 specimens of M. segmentata the legs do not appear to me at all to 



1) This is now the opinion of Westring himself, as he has by letter in- 

 formed me. 



