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compressed and obliquely cut off at the extremity, as also a fine, 

 sharply curved, pointed hook at the very apex of the clava. Z. montana 

 cT (as also Z. x-notata cO is destitute of the first-named strong hook, 

 but has instead of it two large strong teeth on the underside , outwards , 

 nearer the base. In Z. x-notata cf also these teeth are wanting. In 

 the male of this last named species the diameter of the palpal clava 

 is not greater, rather somewhat less, than the diameter of the thighs 

 of the 1 st pair; in Z. Strcemii the diameter of the clava is someivhat, 

 in Z. montana much greater than the diameter of the anterior thighs. 



On the form of the vulva in Z. Kochii and Z. Rossii, see pag. 

 33, 34, note. 



(Pag. 75.) IV. META [= Meta (C. Koch) 1836]. 

 Vid. Thor., On Eur. Spiel., p. 61. 



(Pag. 76.) 1. M. fusca O 3Ieta Merianee (Scop.) 1763]. 



Var. a (forma principalis): 



Syn.: 1763. Aranea merlins Scop., Ent. Cam., p. 395. 



1778. „ FUSCA DeGeek, Mem., VII, p. 235, PI. 11, figg. 9—12. 

 1802. „ antriada Wai,ck., Faune Par., II, p. 201. 

 1805. Epeeba ,, id., Tabl. d. Aran., p. 62. 



1833. ,, inclinata Var o Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr. , in Vet.-Akad. 



HandL f. 1832, p. 250. 

 1836. Meta heriaiwe C. Koch, in Herr.-Sch,eff., Deutschl. Ins., 131, 14, 15. 

 1851. Epeira fusca Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 34. 

 1856. Meta „ Thor., Eec. crit., p. 98. 



1864. Epeira antriada Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., LI, p. 351, PI. XXVI, fig. 253. 

 Var. /?, celata: 



1844. Epeira celata Blackw., The differ, in the numb, of eyes etc., in 

 Transact, of the Linn. Soc. XVIII, Part. IV, p. 668. 

 1864. „ „ id., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 353, PI. XXVI, fig. 254. 



It is indeed far from certain, that Scopoli's Ar. Merianee is 

 really the species described by C. Koch under the name of Meta 

 Merianee (Scop.), and which in Westring is called M. fusca; but as 

 no better conjecture has been made or probably can be made on 

 the subject, and as Scopoli's specific name is almost universally 

 adopted by the German arachnologists, I conceive I ought to accept 

 it for the species before us, instead of the more certain but newer 

 name fusca De Geer. That this last-mentioned name is used by 



