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(Pag. 121.) 17. L. rufa [= Linyphia scopigera Gkube 1859]. 



Syn.: 1859. Linyphia scopigera Grube, Verzeichn. d. Arachn. Liv-, Kur- u. 



Ehstl., p. 59 (470) (<?; J ad part). 

 1866. Pedina cristata Menge, Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 125, PI. 23, tab. 49. 



Theridium rufwm Eeuss (Zool. Misc., Arachn. , p. 218 (223), PL 

 XV, fig. 3) appears to be too uncertain a synonym, to allow of 

 the specific name rufa being retained for this Linyphia; even We- 

 string cites it with a note of interrogation. The description of the 

 female of Ther. rufum does not badly suit Westring's L. rufa, but 

 then the peculiar structure of the male's palpi so characteristic of 

 this species is not mentioned by Eeuss, and what he says of the 

 palpi of cf of his Ther. rufum but ill suits Westring's Lin. rufa. 

 Menge also rejects the specific name rufa Reuss, and calls this spi- 

 der Pedina cristata; but as he had already employed the specific name 

 cristatus for a Bathyphantes (I.e., p. 121), which genus, as well as Pedi- 

 na, I unite with Linyphia, I cannot adopt the name cristata for the 

 species before us ; moreover Grube's L. scopigera ') belongs to this 

 species, and that name is prior to Menge's. The typical specimen 

 of L. scopigera cT, Prof. Grube has himself kindly sent me for exa- 

 mination. His short description seems however to imply that he 

 has confounded some other species with the female of L. scopigera.' 1 ) 

 — This species appears to have been unknown to Blackwall. 



(Pag. 123.) 18. L. COmata [= Linyphia bicolor (Blackw.) 1833]. 



Syn.: 1833. Neriene bicolor Blackw., Charact. of some undescr., gen. etc., p. 384. 

 1834. Linyphia comata Reuss, Zool. Misc., Arachn., p. 219 (225), PI. XV, 



fig. 4. 



1841. Argus comatus "VVai-ck., H. N. d. Ins. Apt., II, p. 353. 

 1864. Neriene bicolor Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., LT, p. 250, PL XVII, 



fig. 168. 



1866. Bathyphantes comatus Menge, Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 118, PI. 21, tab. 43. 



Specimens of this species have been declared by Cambridge iden- 

 tical with Neriene bicolor Blackw., whose description also perfectly 



1) " . . . Clava palporum maris ad basin processu parvo, fasciculum setaram 

 gerente, ornata, setis parallelis, extremitate incrassatis, fissis." (Loc. cit.). 



2) " . . . abdomine sordide olivaceo vel fusco concolore vel striis transversis 

 ad extremitatem congestis . . (Loc. cit.). 



