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(Pag. 57.) 1. Singa Herii [= Singa pygmeea (Sund.) 1830]. 



Syn.: 1830. Thereoutm pygjueum Sund., Sv. Spindl. Beskr., in Vet.-Akad. Handl. 



f. 1829, p. 121 {ad partem: ?). 

 ?1831. Epeira tubulosa Hahn, Die Arachu., I, p. 10, Taf. II, fig. 6. 

 1837. Micryphantes anthracinus C. Koch , Uebers. d. Arachn.-Syst., 1, p. 11. 

 1839. Phrurolithus trifasciatus id., Die Arachn., VI, p. 116, Taf. CCVIU, 



fig. 516. 



1845. Singa trifasciata id., ibid., XI, p. 151, Taf. CCCXCIH, fig. 948. 

 1845. „ anthracina id., ibid., p. 154, Taf. CCCXCIH, fig. 950. 

 ?1845. ,, serrulata id., ibid., p. 153. 

 1851. Epeira nigrifrons Westr., Forteckn. etc., p. 59. 

 1851. ,, TRIFASCIATA id., ibid. 



1864. „ anthracina Blackw., Spid. of Gr. Brit., II, p. 357, PI. 



XXVI, fig. 257. 

 1864. „ Herii id., ibid., p. 366, PI. XXVH, fig. 264. 



That Sundevall's above mentioned Theridium pygmceum "atrum 

 nitidum, pedibus testaceis, abdomine feminse albo-lineato," as the 

 description runs , is the same species as that here described by We- 

 string, i. e. Singa trifasciata C. Koch, although Sundevall has con- 

 founded with it a little Linyplda, is evident not only from Sunde- 

 vall's description, but from the circumstance that "Westring saw 

 that Singa in Sundevall's own collection of spiders under the name 

 of Theridium pygmceum (Vid. "Westr., p. 127. On the subject of 

 Titer, pygmceum Sund. see also farther on, under Linyphia pygmeea 

 Westr.). The specific name pygmaea, which is accordingly the oldest 

 by which Singa trifasciata has been designated, I consider myself 

 bound to restore. — Singa (Epeira) anthracina C. Koch and Blackw. 

 is the male to S. pygmeea or trifasciata: I have not unfrequently in 

 Uppland and Westmanland taken both sexes together. Westring was 

 unacquainted with the male. — Singa serrulata C. Koch (= Ep. tubulosa 

 Hahn) is probably only a variety of this species. 



It seems on the other hand certain, that the real Epeira Herii 

 Hahn ') (with is variety S. nigrifrons C. Koch) is quite another species 

 than S. trifasciata or pygmeea. The ^-specimens of & Herii from 

 Germany (Niirnberg), which I have received from Dr L. Koch, are 

 not only something larger than my Swedish and English specimens 

 of S. pygmeea $ , and of a different colour, but also somewhat un- 



1) Die Arach., I, p. 8, Taf. H, fig. 5. 



