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the anus is entirely black, and is not bordered either below or at 

 the sides by light bands or points, as is the case in C. Koch's, 

 Walckenaer's and Ohleet's L. frutetorum. In this latter species the 

 field above the anus is terminated above by a yellowish cross-line 

 usually interrupted in the middle, which is continued on both sides 

 downwards, where it includes another short cross-line sometimes 

 broken in the middle: in the little black, semicircular or somewhat 

 quadrangular field thus included in yellowish lines, are two yellowish 

 points. Both cf and ¥ of /,. frutetorum (from Nurnberg) Dr. L. 

 Koch has presented me with: a female specimen from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Paris I have received from Mr. Simon, and two others 

 I have myself captured at Amain in Italy. The cf, of which also 

 Prof. Ohlert sent me a couple of specimens (from Konigsberg) is 

 more like the cf of L. pusilla than of L. hortensis. As in the 

 former, the lamina bulbi is not broader than the thigh, and the 

 bulbus near the apex is armed with a very long, stout, spiral, in- 

 ward- and upward-curved bristle: but it is easily distinguished from 

 L. pusilla, the bulbus being far less complicated, without any ap- 

 pendage on the underside, where in L. pusilla cf it bears a long, 

 slender, transparent appendage, that extends along the bulbus, and 

 is continued upwards under the pars tibialis as a free projection. — 

 L. quadrata Keuss (Zool. Misc., Arachn., p. 244 (251), PI. XVII, fig. 3) 

 certainly does not belong to L. hortensis, but to L. frutetorum, under 

 which it is classed by C. Koch. In L. quadrata also the field above the 

 anus is said to be terminated above and at the sides by three yellow 

 stripes, with two yellow spots in the quadrangular black field, which 

 they include. The dark central band along the back of the abdomen 

 in L. quadrata is farther described as narrow: in L. hortensis it is 

 broad, much broader than the cephalothorax. — The specific names fru- 

 tetorum and quadrata are almost contemporaneous: the former, which 

 was given by C. Koch in Herr.-Sch^ff., Deutschl. Ins., 127 (1834), is 

 probably somewhat older, and at all events more certain than the 

 latter. 



L. pascuensis Walck. (Ins. Apt., II, p. 251) is possibly iden- 

 tical with L. hortensis Sund. The description of the abdomen suits 

 by no means ill those specimens of L. hortensis, which have the su- 

 perior lateral stripes of the abdomen shortened behind; but in L. 

 pascuensis the posterior central eyes are said to be no larger than 

 the anterior (and the legs to be destitute both of hair and spines!), 

 which is not the case in L. hortensis. 



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