46 



This species is by no means identical with Lin. pratensis Reuss, as 

 Grube (Verzeichn. d. Arachn. Liv-, Kur- u. Ehstl. P- 27) supposes. 



(Pag. 96.) 3. L. triangularis [= Linyphia triangularis (Cleeck) 



1757]. 



Syn.: 1757. Araneus triangularis Cleeck, Sv. Spindl. , p. 71, PI. 3, tab. 2, 



fig. 1 (Descriptio et figura maris). 

 1758. Aranea MONTANA Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, I, p. 621. 

 1768. „ pinnata Strom, Beskrivelser over Norske Insekter, 2 St., in 

 Det Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter, IV, p. 363. 

 1778. ,, resupina silvestris De Geer, Mem., VII, p. 245, PI. 14, 



figg. 13-21. 



1789. „ triangularis Oliv., Encycl. Meth., IV, p. 211. 

 1798. Araneus triangularius Martyn, Aranei, p. 32. 



1805. Linyphia Montana Walck. , Tabl. d. Aran., p. 71. 



1806. „ triangularis Latr., Gen. Crust, et Ins., I, p. 100. 

 1864. „ MONTANA Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 211, PI. XV, 



fig. 138. 



1866. „ macrognatha Menge , Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 101, PI. 17, tab. 31. 

 91866. „ micrognatha id., ibid., p. 103, PI. 17, tab. 32. 



The description Clerck has given of his Ar. triangularis, exactly 

 suits Ar. res. silvestris De Geer; if, in the composition of that descrip- 

 tion he had had Lin. marginata C. Koch before his eyes, he would 

 hardly have omitted to mention the peculiar colour of its cephalotho- 

 rax. Moreover the figure hegives of the male palpably represents Ar. 

 res. silvestris, but the figure of the female on the other hand repre- 

 sents Lin. marginata Koch. Clerck has accordingly confounded these 

 two spiders; but the first-named being in Sweden by far the more 

 common species, one ought to reserve the specific name triangularis 

 to it, as indeed the Swedish (among other) arachnologists , from the 

 time of Sundevall inclusively, have always done. Linne's Ar. mon- 

 tana belongs indeed to this species, but Clerck's name, as being 

 elder, has right of priority. For information respecting Walckenaer's 

 confusion of the synonyms of this species and of Lin. montana (Clerck) , 

 I refer the reader to Kec. crit. aran., p. 31 et seq. See also above, 

 pp. 44, 45, under the head of Lin. montana Westr. 



Of the two very nearly related forms, which Menge (1. c, p. 101 — 

 103) describes under the names of L. macrognatha and X. micro- 



1) Verzeichniss d. Aracbnoiden Liv-, Kur- u. Ebstlands, in Arcbiv f. d.\Na- 

 turkunde Liv-, Ehst- u. Kurlands, 2 Ser., I (p. 441). 



