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(Pag. 63.) 4. S. prominens [= Cercidia prominent (Westr.) 1851]. 



Syn.: 1851. Epeika prominens Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 35. 



1861. Singa scutifera id., Aran. Suec, p. 67. 



1861. Epelra Bella Meade, Descr. of a new spec, of spid., in Ann. and 



Mag. of Nat, Hist., 3 Ser., VII, p. 20. 



1864. „ „ Blackw. , Spid. of Gr. Brit., H, p. 343, PI. XXV, fig. 248. 



1865. Atea spinosa Ohlert, Arachnol. Studien, p. 9. 



1866. Cerceis 1 ) prominens Menge, Preuss. Spinn., I, p. 80, PI. 13, tab. 21. 



Of this remarkable species I have had the opportunity of exa- 

 mining a cf and 9 , which I received from Westring, and a Q from 

 Finnland sent me by Nordmann, as also a young specimen commu- 

 nicated by Ohlert. The posterior row of eyes , viewed from above, 

 is almost straight, slightly curved forward; the four central eyes 

 form a rectangle, of which the length is a little greater than the 

 breadth: the posterior central eyes are considerably larger than 

 the anterior, and the interval between the former is in $ con- 

 siderably, in cf somewhat less than that between the latter. The 

 distance between these and the posterior central eyes is about equal to 

 that between the anterior lateral and central eyes , equal to the dia- 

 meter of the posterior central, and evidently greater than the inter- 

 val between the two anterior central eyes. In the cf the anterior 

 central eyes are situated on a projecting protuberance, and the di- 

 stance between them and the posterior central eyes is evidently less 

 than between the somewhat procurved anterior row of eyes and the 

 border of the clypeus. — On the slightly curved palpal claw of the 

 female I have counted 7 gradually longer, pointed, close-set comb-teeth , 

 on the powerful superior tarsal claw of the 1 st pair of legs 9 — 12 

 similar teeth; on the small inferior claw the two ordinary teeth are 

 very short and rudimentary. 



Westring has informed me, that he now considers S. scutifera 

 as identical with S. prominens, which is doubtless right. 



On the genus Cercidia, vid. Thor., On Eur. Spid., p. 58. 



(Pag. 66.) 5. S. SClltifera [= Cercidia prominens (Westr.) 1851]. 

 See preceding species. 



1) Cerceis Mtlne-Edw. [Crust.] 1840. 



