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where, for example, we read that the "breast" (cephalothorax) is 

 "subnigrurn," "morkbrunt" (dark brown), and the legs provided with 

 "fibulis obscuris ," "mattbaltige ," i. e. with dark rings. Ar. montana 

 Clerck is then, in spite of Walckenaer's assertion, not - Ar. resu- 

 pina silvestris DeGeer, which species by Clerck is called Araneus 

 triangularis. Ar. montana Linn., on the contrary, is undoubtedly the 

 same as Ar. res. silvestris DeGeer; but, as Clerck's designation has 

 the priority of Linne's, it is Ar. res. domestica, or the Lin. resupina 

 of Reuss, Walck., C. Koch etc. (L. marginata Blackw.), which must 

 receive the name of Linyphia montana, as already Sundevall, and 

 subsequently Westring and others, have called it. 



Walckenaer erroneously takes up among the synonyms of this 

 species Ar. pinnata Mull. (Zool. Danicse Prodr., p. 194). In treating 

 of that species, Muller, in his short and insufficient diagnosis, refers 

 to Strom's description of Ar. pinnata, which is fully detailed and 

 shows that Ar. pinnata is the same as Lin. triangularis (Clerck) 

 Westr. (See Syn. of this species on the next page). The words cited 

 by Walckenaer (Ins. Apt., II, p. 246) from "Acta Nidarosise" (Det 

 Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter), are not of Muller, but of Strom. 



(Pag. 94.) 2. L. Clathrata [= Linyphia clathrata Sund. 1830]. 



Syn.: 1830. Linyphia clathrata Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1829, p. 218. 



1833. Neriene marginata Blackw.. Charact. of someundescr.gen.etc.,p.l88. 



1834. Linyphia multiguttata Reuss, Zool. Misc., Arachn., p. 248 (254), 



PI. XVII, fig. 6. 



1837. ,, luctuosa C. Koch, Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst., I, p. 10. 

 1864. NERIENE MARGINATA Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 249, PI. 



XVII, fig. 167. 



1866. Linyphia clathrata Menge, Prenss. Spinn., I, p. 107, PI. 18, tab. 34. 



This species, which resembles the preceding, but is easily di- 

 stinguished by its much smaller size, its shorter maxilla?, and the 

 different relative length of the legs (4 th pair longer than 1 st ), appears 

 to be the type of the genus Neriene. of Blackwall. It has escaped that 

 author's observation, that the species had already been described by 

 Sundevall under tbe name of Lin. clathrata, before it received from 

 Blackwall the specific name marginata. Mr. Cambridge has kindly 

 sent me English specimens of Blackwall's Neriene marginata. — 



